Geology of Oahu

Abstract

Oahu is one of the newly annexed H awaiian islands. I t possesses the best harbor in the whole group, and is therefore the most im portant loca tion for business, the chief city, Honolulu, containing 40,000 inhabitants and being situated about 2,100 iniles southwesterly from San Francisco. H a w a iia n A r c h ip e l a g o Ocean island. Midway island. Gambia shoal. Pearl and Howes reef.

Prodigious submarine landslides on the Hawaiian Ridge

“…Dana's faulting model was rejected by Hitchcock [1900], who believed that erosion alone was sutficient to form the cliffs without the additional complexity of faulting. Wentworth [1927], comparing estimates of marine and fluvial erosion rates, concluded that marine erosion alone was insutficient to produce some of the larger sea cliffs (e.g., those of north Molokai) and that they were probably produced by faulting.…”

Summary of the Oahu, Hawaii, Regional Aquifer-System Analysis

“…Stearns (1939) presented a detailed geologic map of Oahu. Other important studies of the geology of Oahu include those of Hitchcock (1900), Wentworth (1926Wentworth ( , 1951, Palmer (1927Palmer ( ,1946, Stearns (1940Stearns ( , 1946Stearns ( ,1985, Wentworth and Winchell (1947), Winchell (1947), and Macdonald and others (1983). Sinton (1986) presented a revised geologic map and stratigraphic nomenclature for the Waianae Volcano, and the stratigraphic nomenclature for all of Oahu was reviewed and updated by Langenheim and Clague (1987).…”

How and Why Hawaiian Volcanism Has Become Pivotal to Our Understanding of Volcanoes from Their Source to the Surface

“…Dana [1890] proposed that these cliffs were the products of faulting. Others suggested that many of the cliffs were formed by marine erosion [Hitchcock, 1900;Wentworth, 1927] or the headwalls of giant landslides [Stearns and Macdonald, 1946]. The debate about these cliffs and the possibility they are related to landslides continued for decades.…”