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Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 March 2021
GSA Bulletin (2021) 133 (9-10): 2189–2209.
...James V. Gardner; Brian R. Calder; Andrew A. Armstrong Abstract This study describes the geomorphometries of archipelagic aprons on the southern flanks of the French Frigate Shoals and Necker Island edifices on the central Northwest Hawaiian Ridge that are hotspot volcanoes that have been dormant...
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Plots of (A) <span class="search-highlight">French</span> <span class="search-highlight">Frigate</span> <span class="search-highlight">Shoals</span> (FFS) and Necker Island (NI) edifices es...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 10. Plots of (A) French Frigate Shoals (FFS) and Necker Island (NI) edifices estimate slide volume vs. seafloor gradient and (B) distance from the base of the edifice. (C) Plot of long base length vs. short base length of outrunners off FFS and NI edifices. (D) Plots of estimated outrunner
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Bathymetric profiles A–B and C–D off the <span class="search-highlight">French</span> <span class="search-highlight">Frigate</span> <span class="search-highlight">Shoals</span> edifice are ...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 15. Bathymetric profiles A–B and C–D off the French Frigate Shoals edifice are shown with their locations. Plots below each profile show bedform crest heights and wavelengths versus water depth and crest height versus wavelength for each profile.
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 May 1974
GSA Bulletin (1974) 85 (5): 727–738.
...G. BRENT DALRYMPLE; MARVIN A. LANPHERE; EVERETT D. JACKSON Abstract Petrographic and chemical analyses of basalt from Nihoa Island, Necker Island, French Frigate Shoals, and Midway Atoll, all in the leeward part of the Hawaiian chain, confirm that these islands are subaerial remnants of tholeiitic...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 30 September 1925
GSA Bulletin (1925) 36 (3): 521–544.
... of the volcanic islands of the Hawaiian chain, without exception. Every island in the chain shows it. One or the other of us has observed the bench on La Perouse Rock at French Frigates Shoal, Necker Island, Nihoa Island, Kaula Island, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe, and Hawaii. Study of photographs...
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(A) Close-up view of multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry of archipelagi...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 8. (A) Close-up view of multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry of archipelagic apron off French Frigate Shoals edifice (FFS) with MBES extent outlined in Figure 7A . Yellow arrowheads point to outrunners profiled in Figure 11 . See Figure 7A for bathymetry color scale. (B) Same view
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(A) Close-up view of multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry of archipelagi...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 8. (A) Close-up view of multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry of archipelagic apron off French Frigate Shoals edifice (FFS) with MBES extent outlined in Figure 7A . Yellow arrowheads point to outrunners profiled in Figure 11 . See Figure 7A for bathymetry color scale. (B) Same view
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Sub-bottom profile L287–288 shows the seismic signatures across the <span class="search-highlight">French</span> ...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 12. Sub-bottom profile L287–288 shows the seismic signatures across the French Frigate Shoals archipelagic apron. Location of profile in Figure 8B .
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Axial profile of multibeam echosounder bathymetry down the center of the ch...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 17. Axial profile of multibeam echosounder bathymetry down the center of the chute feature on flank of the French Frigate Shoals edifice is shown. Location of profile A–B is shown in Figure 16 .
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Slope map of multibeam echosounder bathymetry of archipelagic aprons of Fre...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 14. Slope map of multibeam echosounder bathymetry of archipelagic aprons of French Frigate Shoals (FFS) and Necker Island (NI) edifices accentuates bedforms. Isobath interval is 100 m. Profiles A–B and C–D are shown in Figure 15 .
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(A) Perspective view of multibeam echosounder bathymetry. Yellow profile A–...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 16. (A) Perspective view of multibeam echosounder bathymetry. Yellow profile A–B is the axial profile shown in Figure 17 . (B) Acoustic backscatter of chute on the southern flank of French Frigate Shoals (FFS) edifice. White arrows point to outrunners. A plunge pool at the base
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(A) Example shows multibeam echosounder, high-backscatter linear striations...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 9. (A) Example shows multibeam echosounder, high-backscatter linear striations below headwall scarps on French Frigate Shoals. Brown area is Global Multi-Resolution Topography bathymetry ( Ryan et al., 2009 ). (B) Same area with 50 m isobaths from 1200 m to 4300 m. Profiles A–B and C–D
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(A) Multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry of southern archipelagic aprons...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 7. (A) Multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry of southern archipelagic aprons of French Frigate Shoals (FFS) and Necker Island (NI) edifices with the extent outlines in black dashed lines. White dashed lines outline the extent of the archipelagic aprons; see text for discussion of chute
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Overview map shows bathymetry of a section of the mid-Hawaiian Ridge and Mi...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 6. Overview map shows bathymetry of a section of the mid-Hawaiian Ridge and Mid-Pacific Mountains in the vicinity of the French Frigate Shoals (FFS) and Necker Island (NI) edifices. Yellow rectangle encloses the study area. White circles indicate locations of piston cores (PC) in area
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(A) Plot of debris avalanche areas vs. runout distance is overlain with cur...
Published: 01 March 2021
., 2014 ). FFSE—French Frigate Shoals edifice data; NIE—Necker Island edifice data. The Moore et al. (1989) data points are from the debris avalanches off the Hawaiian Islands, and the Watt et al. (2014) data points are from various areas in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
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(A) Perspective view of multibeam echosounder bathymetry looking NNE of sou...
Published: 01 March 2021
outrunner fields. See Figure 7 for bathymetry color scale. FFS—French Frigate Shoals.
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Map view of MBES bathymetry of large field of bedforms shed off the southea...
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 20. Map view of MBES bathymetry of large field of bedforms shed off the southeastern flank of Necker Island edifice (NI) and southern flank of French Frigate Shoals (FFS) and deposited on the NW side of Necker Ridge. Selected isobaths in meters. Dashed black line outlines field of bedforms
Journal Article
Published: 01 February 1971
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1971) 61 (1): 147–166.
... 1967 consisted of eight marine traverses covering the section of the Ridge from the island of Oahu to the atoll of French Frigate Shoals (Figure 1), the second consisted of three traverses near the island of Oahu in April 1968, and the third covered the area from Gardner Pinnacles to the island...
Journal Article
Journal: Geosphere
Published: 01 October 2015
Geosphere (2015) 11 (5): 1590–1606.
... highlighted (circles) in Figure 2 , including the French Frigate Shoals and Kaena Ridge in the Hawaiian Islands. Other important sites are ridges underlying the Kuril, Aleutian, Bonin, and Mariana Islands and a gap between Bougainville and New Ireland, where the barotropic tide exchanges between the Solomon...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 June 1920
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1920) 10 (2): 55–89.
... frigate lay by the wharf, and was forced over the tops of the sunken houses, and saved some hundreds of the inhabitants. The fort and about 200 houses escaped; but part of the neck of land, about a quarter of a mile in length, was entirely submersed, with all the houses, which stood very thick upon...