Geology and Ground-water Resources of the Island of Niihau, Hawaii
Geology and Ground-water Resources of the Island of Niihau, Hawaii

Author: Harold Thornton Stearns

Publisher:

Published: 1947

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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Reports on the domestic water supply derived from rain caught from roofs and some ground wells. Overall, the island has high aridity, unfavorable geologic structures, continuous deposition of salt spray, and abundant authigenic salts in the lake beds.

A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands
A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands

Author: E. Alison Kay

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994-12-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780824816599

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This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.

Volcanoes in the Sea
Volcanoes in the Sea

Author: Gordon A. Macdonald

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1983-07-01

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780824808327

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Well written and superbly illustrated, this work includes chapters on tectonic plates, volcanoes, erosion by water and wind, the ocean, ice and glaciers, earthquakes and tsunamis.