Research Catalog

Title

Geologic guide to the island of Hawaii : a field guide for comparative planetary geology / Ronald Greeley, editor.

Publication

Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1974.

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Additional Authors

• Greeley, Ronald.
• Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Hawaiian Planetology Conference (October 1974 : Hilo, Hawaii)
• Mars Geologic Mappers Meeting (October 1974 : Hilo, Hawaii)

Description

v, 257 p. : ill.; 20 x 27 cm.

Summary

Collection of articles on general geology and field guides for Island of Hawaii that constitutes a general volcanology reference.

Subject

Geology > Hawaii > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

Guidebooks

Note

• "Prepared for the Mars Geologic Mappers Meeting [of the Hawaiian Planetology Conference], Hilo, Hawaii, Oct. 1974 which was cohosted by the University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Calif., and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory-United States Geological Survey, Hawaii and sponsored by the Office of Planetology Programs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D. C."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Ronald Greeley -- A concise history of Hawaii / Cynthia R. Greeley -- Physiography of the Hawaiian Islands / Agatin T Abbott -- Origin of the Hawaiian Islands / G. Brent Dalrymple, Eli A. Silver, and Everett D. Jackson -- Synopsis of volcanic stratigraphy / Paul E. Hammond -- Recent landforms at Kilauea Volcano / Robin T. Holcomb, Donald W. Peterson, and Robert I. Tilling -- Geology of the Island of Hawaii / Gordon A.. Macdonald -- Aerial reconnaissance of the geology over the Island of Hawaii / Ronald Greeley -- Road guide to geological points of interest on the Island of Hawaii /reprinted from H. T. Sterns, and G. A. Macdonald, with minor additions by Ronald Greeley -- Field guide to summit area and upper east rift zone, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii / Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Staff -- Mauna Iki and the Ka'u Desert: Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii / Dale P. Cruikshank -- Kaumana Lava Tube / Ronald Greeley -- Mauna Kea / Stephen C. Porter -- East Puna / Gordon A. Macdonald.

OCLC

• 2768680
• SCSB-10182094

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library