Extensive dating of the fossil corals associated with the Waimanalo shoreline on Oahu has shown that 120,000 years ago the ocean was approximately 7.6 meters above its present level. Corals grown during that time constitute a major portion of the subaerial reef-derived material on the island, with exposures ranging from about 10 meters to near sea level. This evidence corroborates the notion that 120,000 years before the present was the last time during which the sea stood significantly higher than it does today. The reported benches at 3.7, 1.5, and 0.6 meters, if not of Recent origin, could be features created by brief halts of the sea during rapid regression shortly after the Waimanalo high stand.

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___________________ Analysis of previous work ____________________________ Papers dealing primarily with equivalents of the Big Snowy group in Montana--_-__-____-____-__--_ Incidental reports.______________________________ Resume__ _ _____________________________________ Carboniferous systems._____________________________ Mississippian system ____________________________ Madison group_____________________________ Mission Canyon limestone_______________ Charles formation_______________________ Lower part of Big Snowy group._.____________ Kibbey sandstone.._____________________ Otter formation-._______________________ Heath formation._______________________ Mississippian or Pennsylvanian system ____________ Middle part of Big Snowy group.._____________ Cameron Creek formation_________ ______ Alaska Bench limestone__________________ Pennsylvanian system ___________________________ Upper part of Big Snowy group._--___________ Devils Pocket formation. ________________ Beds overlying Big Snowy group________ ____________ Pennsylvanian (?), Permian (?), or Triassic(?) undiff erentiated-_ _______________________________ Jurassic system-________________________________ Unconformities. ____________________________________ Faunal analysis,____________________________________ Preservation ____________________________________ Distribution.. __________________________________ Paleontological characteristics of the formations Interregional and intercontinental correlation problems_ ____________________________________ Chester series of Illinois._____________________ Springer formation of Oklahoma._____________ Moscow basin._____________________________ Cordilleran geosyncline______________________ Rocky Mountains___________________________ Brazer limestone________________________ Sacajawea formation of Branson (1936)____ CARBONIFEROUS FORMATIONS AND FAUNAS OF CENTRAL MONTANA

Abstract14C ages supplemented by 230Th/234U determinations have been obtained for calcareous deposits on Koror, Babelthuap, Auluptagel, and Adorius Islands in the Palau Group, West Caroline Islands. Test borings for a bridge between Koror and Babelthuap reveal shoreface terraces consisting largely of bioclastic sand, but resembling fringing reefs. The base of the shoreface terraces dates to between 7000 and 8000 14C yr B.P. and the upper surfaces are slightly younger than 4000 yr B.P. Spacing of the subsurface isochrons indicates that the rate of sedimentation increased up-section on Koror terrace and decreased up-section on Babelthuap terrace. The average rate of deposition in the terraces was 0.5 cm/yr. Isochrons in the Babelthuap shoreface terrace are 7 m higher than those in the Koror terrace. If deposition was sufficient to keep the surfaces of the terraces at low tide level, then the Babelthuap side was essentially stable and the Koror side was uplifted between about 8000 and 6300 yr ago, and then subsided until 4000 yr ago; since then there has been about 2 m of uplift. “Top hat” microatolls on Koror terrace indicate that relative sea level has dropped about 30 cm in the past 75 yr. In the absence of good evidence for changes of level in water ponded in a moat, it is likely that the microatolls indicate uplift of the terrace. On the other hand, if tectonic activity was minimal, then differences in the two terraces are due to differences in sedimentation with the Koror side of the channel being substantially subtidal between about 7000 and 5000 yr B.P. Taking the composite eustatic sea-level curve of Hawaii and elsewhere as a reference standard, it is deduced that Auluptagel Island has risen 0.8 m in the last 2900 yr, and Adorius Island has risen approximately 8 m in the last 5000–6000 yr.

Koninckophyllum glahrum (Keyes) Genus Vesiculophyllum n. gen Vesiculophyllum sedaliense (White) Family Lithostrotiontidae Genus Lithostrotion Fleming Lithostrotion microstylujn White Family Favositidae Genus Favosites Lamarck emend. Smith and Gullick 54 Favosites divergens White and Whitfield 54 Favositesf mancus Winchell 54 Genus Pleurodtctyum Goldfuss Pleurodictyum expansum (White) Appendix to Favositidae Genus Palaecis Haime in Milne-Edwards Palaeacis conica n. sp Family Cleistoporidae n. fam. Genus Cleistopora Nicholson emend Cleistopora procera (Rowley) Cleistopora ramosa (Rowley) Cleistopora typa (Winchell) emend 59 Cleistopora sp 60 Appendix to the Cleistoporidae .60 Genus Microcyathus Hinde 60 Microcyathus enormis (Meek and Worthen) 60 Family Syringoporidae Genus Syringopora Goldfuss Syringopora harveyi White Family Auloporidae Genus Aulopora Goldfuss Aulopora? sp 62 Genus Cladochonus McCoy. 62 Cladochonus striatus n. sp .62 Position unknown 62 Coleophyllumf greeni Rowley. 62 Plates and Explanations (3-17) S3 CORALS FROM THE CHOUTEAU AND RELATED FORMATIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI