Lava tree molds of the September 1961 eruption, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
James G. Moore, D.H. Richter
1962, GSA Bulletin (73) 1153-1158
Well-developed lava tree molds were formed during the September 1961 eruption along the east rift zone of Kilauea Volcano. The upright molds were produced where fluid lava, flowing through dense tropical forest, became chilled against the larger trees and tree ferns and later drained away. Where the lava ponded temporarily...
Magmatic differentiation in the Uwekahuna Laccolith, Kilauea Caldera, Hawaii
K. J. Murata, D.H. Richter
1961, Journal of Petrology (2) 424-437
Petrographic and chemicoal studies of a suite of rocks from the Uwekahuna laccolith of Kilauea Volcano show that the original mafic tholeiitic magma differentiated into tholeiitic picrite, tholeiitic olivine gabbro, and an aphanitic rock approaching quartz-basalt in composition. Mechanisms involved were an initial gravity settling of olivine and a final filter pressing of...
Lava temperatures in the 1959 Kilauea eruption and cooling lake
W.U. Ault, Jerry P. Eaton, D.H. Richter
1961, GSA Bulletin (72) 791-794
The 1959 summit eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, filled the crater of Kilauea Iki with a lake of lava 365 feet deep. Temperatures of the erupting basalt ranged between 1060° and 1190°C. Temperatures down a 12.7-foot-deep hole, drilled into the crust of the lake 5 months after cessation...
Geology and ground-water resources of the island of Kauai, Hawaii
Gordon A. Macdonald, Dan A. Davis, Doak C. Cox
1960, Bulletin 13
Kauai is one of the oldest, and is structurally the most complicated, of the Hawaiian Islands. Like the others, it consists principally of a huge shield volcano, built up from the sea floor by many thousands of thin flows of basaltic lava. The volume of the Kauai shield was on...
Fourth special report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association: Steam blast volcanic eruptions: A study of Mount Pelée in Martinique as type volcano
T. A. Jaggar
1949, Report
The investigation is concerned with the author's expedition to Martinique and St. Vincent in 1902 and comparison of the experience of investigators and sufferers with that of others in so-called "explosive" eruptions. The Hawaiian mechanism is reviewed with special reference to rifts, underground water, intrusion furnace, wedge rupture, and lowering...
Geology and ground-water resources of the island of Hawaii
Harold T. Stearns, Gordon A. Macdonald
1946, Bulletin 9
Hawaii, the largest island in the Hawaiian group, is 93 miles long, 76 miles wide, and covers 4,030 square miles. Mauna Loa Volcano is 13,680 feet high and Mauna Kea is 13,784 feet high. Plate 1 shows the geology, wells, springs, and water-development tunnels. Plate 2 is a map and...
General geology and ground-water resources of the island of Maui, Hawaii
Harold T. Stearns, Gordon Andrew Macdonald
1942, Bulletin 7
Maui, the second largest island in the Hawaiian group, is 48 miles long, 26 miles wide, and covers 728 square miles. The principal town is Wailuku. Sugar cane and pineapples are the principal crops. Water is used chiefly for irrigating cane. The purpose of the investigation was to study the...
Geology and water resources of the Kau district, Hawaii (including parts of Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes)
Harold T. Stearns, W. O. Clark, Oscar Edwards Meinzer
1930, Water Supply Paper 616
No abstract available....
The explosive phase of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, in 1924
H.T. Stearns
1925, Bulletin Volcanologique (1) 193-208
[No abstract available]...
Second report of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association: On cyclical variations in eruption at Kilauea
Harry O. Wood
1917, Report
This work treats chiefly of observed changes in the height of stand of molten lava in the crater of Kilauea. It also takes account of concurrent variations in the apparent energy of eruptive action at the surface of the magma column. With little doubt these conditions vary in a complex...
