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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...
Journal Article
Published: 01 February 1971
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1971) 61 (1): 147–166.
..., the volcanoes becoming progressively older to the northwest. In the second group of islands from Nihoa to Gardner Pinnacles (Figure 1), only fragments of former volcanoes appear above the surface of the sea. Among the islands in the second group, French Frigate Shoals has a well-developed coral reef of large...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 March 2004
GSA Bulletin (2004) 116 (3-4): 337–347.
... sites on a line transverse to the ridge crossing the ridge in the vicinity of Nihoa Island ( Chave et al., 1986 ). A range of crust thickness is reported for each dredge haul, and for consistency we employ the maximum thickness in each for comparison with our study of samples from the younger part...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Memoirs
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1144/M40.15
EISBN: 9781862397002
... are not influenced by island area. Fig. 15.4. Extreme stages of erosion of volcanic islands. ( a ) Nihoa in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (277 m high); note the abrupt cliffs on the one side resulting from wave erosion, but the sloping surface on the other side as an outcome of hillslope erosion...
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Book Chapter

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Alan R. Woolley
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 30 August 2019
DOI: 10.1144/MPAR4.5
EISBN: 9781786204684
... material from islands, reefs, pinnacles, seamounts and unnamed areas of ocean floor, listed by Clague & Dalrymple (1989) , range from 38.7 ± 0.9 (Abbott) to 7.2 ± 0.3 Ma (Nihoa). Guillou et al. (1997) obtained K–Ar ages of 102 ± 13 to 5 ± 4 ka for rocks from the eastern flank of Loihi, but Garcia...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 1920
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1920) 10 (4): 155–275.
.... Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe, and Hawaii, which are inhabited, and Molokini, Lehua, Kaula, and Nihoa, barren rocks, constitute the Hawaiian Islands proper West-northwest from these for over 25" of longitude, a distance of 3,000 kilometers from Hawaii, extends a submarine ridge, the summits of which appear...
Published: 01 January 2007
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(23)
... of the Japan Sea (28 Ma; Jolivet et al., 1995 ). The bathymetry of the Hawaiian chain shows a further break between the islands of Nihoa (7 Ma) and Kauai (5 Ma), which corresponds to the timing of plate reorganizations along the Fiji margin ( Cox and Engebretson, 1985 ). The Late Oligocene and Miocene...