“…Excluding an abstract by ourselves (1951), we know of only seven published reports that deal exclusively or primarily with the geology of Saipan (Seidel, 1940b;Tada, 1926;Tayama, 1938;Asano, 1939a;Imaizumi, 1939;Yabe and Sugiyama, 1935;Cole and Bridge, 1953). Geologic and geographic reports that make reference to Saipan, however, are scattered through the published and unpublished record.…”