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Evidence for two shield volcanoes exposed on the island of Kauai, Hawaii

Geology
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Abstract

The island of Kauai has always been interpreted as a single shield volcano, but lavas of previously correlated reversed-to-normal magnetic-polarity transitions on opposite sides of the island differ significantly in isotopic composition. Samples from west Kauai have 87Sr/86Sr < 0.7037, ??Nd ??? 6.14, and 206Pb/204Pb > 18.25; samples from east Kauai have 87Sr/86Sr > 0.7037, ??Nd ??? 6.14, and 206Pb/204Pb < 18.25. Available data suggest that a younger eastern shield grew on the collapsed flank of an older western one.
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Evidence for two shield volcanoes exposed on the island of Kauai, Hawaii
Series title Geology
Volume 25
Issue 9
Year Published 1997
Language English
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First page 811
Last page 814
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