Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Island of Maui, Hawaii (Including Haleakala Section, Hawaii National Park)

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Geologic map of the northwest flank of Mauna Loa volcano, Island of Hawai‘i, Hawaii

“…The map of the north and west flanks of Mauna Loa shows the distribution and relation of volcanic and surficial sedimentary deposits. It incorporates previously reported work published as generalized small-scale maps (Stearns and Macdonald, 1946;Lockwood and Lipman, 1987;Trusdell and others, 2006) and a more detailed map (Moore and Clague, 1991).…”

The development of laterite weathering profiles as a function of rainfall and time: A geophysical approach

“…Kohala, at the northern tip of the island, is extinct and the only one of the five old enough to have developed soil and saprolite profiles over most of its surface. The tholeiitic shield-building stage of Kohala includes Pololu lavas that are as old as 0.78 Ma, but most are closer to 0.35 to 0.30 Ma (Chadwick et al, 2003;Sherrod et al, 2007;Stearns & Macdonald, 1946;Wolfe & Morris, 1996). We have set the age to 0.303 Ma (Sowards et al, 2018).…”