W.B. Bryan
K.R. Ludwig
J.G. Moore
1994
<p>A coral-basalt breccia-conglomerate is exposed >60m above present sea level and nearly 2km inland from the present shoreline on the southwest side of East Molokai Volcano. This deposits was apparently laid down by a giant wave that broke over an outer reef, similar to the present fringing reef, and advanced as a turbulent bore over the back-reef flat, picking up a slurry of carbonate-rich debris and depositing it on the slopes inland as the wave advanced. U-series dating of coral fragments indicates that the age of this deposit is 240-200 ka. This giant wave was most likley caused by one of the many large submarine landslides that have been identified on the lower slopes of the major Hawaiian Islands. </p>
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10.1130/0016-7606(1994)106<0962:CDBAGW>2.3.CO;2
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Chaotic deposition by a giant wave, Molokai, Hawaii
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