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75 relations: Alkali, Alkali basalt, Atoll, Basalt, Bess Press, Caldera, Cinder, Circa, Coral, Coral reef, Crust (geology), East Molokai Volcano, Equator, Erosion, Gardner Pinnacles, Guyot, Haleakalā, Hawaii, Hawaii (island), Hawaii hotspot, Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, Hotspot (geology), Hualālai, Island, Jasper Seamount, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Kīlauea, Koʻolau Range, Kohala (mountain), Kure Atoll, Lagoon, Lanai, Landslide, Latitude, Lava, Lōʻihi Seamount, List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain, Magma, Magnesium, Marine biology, Maui Nui, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Māhukona, Mount Waialeale, Niihau, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Oahu, Oceanography (journal), ..., Pacific Ocean, Pacific Plate, PDF, Penguin Bank, Pillow lava, Pleistocene, Reef, Rift zone, Seamount, Shield, Shield volcano, Silicon dioxide, Subaerial, Temperature, The Oceanography Society, Tholeiitic magma series, Trade winds, Tropics, United States Geological Survey, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Volcanic ash, Volcano, Waianae Range, West Maui Mountains, West Molokai Volcano. Expand index (25 more) »
Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali (from Arabic: al-qaly “ashes of the saltwort”) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal chemical element.
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Alkali basalt
Alkali basalt or alkali olivine basalt is a fine-grained, dark-coloured, volcanic rock characterized by phenocrysts of olivine, titanium-rich augite, plagioclase feldspar and iron oxides.
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Atoll
An atoll, sometimes called a coral atoll, is a ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Bess Press
Bess Press is a Hawaii-based publisher that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture.
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Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like depression that forms following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir.
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Cinder
A cinder is a pyroclastic material.
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Circa
Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.
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Coral
Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.
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Coral reef
Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.
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Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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East Molokai Volcano
The East Molokai Volcano, sometimes also known as Wailau for the Wailau valley on its north side, is an extinct shield volcano comprising the eastern two-thirds of the island of Molokaokinai in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Gardner Pinnacles
The Gardner Pinnacles (Hawaiian: Pūhāhonu) are two barren rock outcrops surrounded by a reef and located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at.
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Guyot
A guyot (pronounced), also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount), with a flat top over below the surface of the sea.
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Haleakalā
Haleakalā (Hawaiian), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Hawaii (island)
Hawaiʻi is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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Hawaii hotspot
The Hawaii hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located near the namesake Hawaiian Islands, in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.
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Hotspot (geology)
In geology, the places known as hotspots or hot spots are volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle.
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Hualālai
Hualālai (pronounced in Hawaiian) is an active volcano on the island of Hawaiokinai in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Jasper Seamount
Jasper Seamount is a seamount (underwater volcano) located in the Fieberling-Guadalupe seamount track, west of Baja California, Mexico.
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Kahoolawe
ʻKahoolawe (Hawaiian) is the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Kauai
Kauai, anglicized as Kauai, is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands.
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Kīlauea
Kīlauea is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiokinai.
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Koʻolau Range
Koolau Range is a name given to the dormant fragmented remnant of the eastern or windward shield volcano of the Hawaiian island of Ookinaahu.
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Kohala (mountain)
Kohala is the oldest of five volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaii.
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Kure Atoll
(Mokupāpapa) or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean beyond Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at.
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Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.
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Lanai
Lānai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain.
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Landslide
The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Lōʻihi Seamount
Lōihi Seamount (also known as Lōʻihi) is an active submarine volcano about off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaii.
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List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a series of volcanoes and seamounts extending across the Pacific Ocean.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
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Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of marine life, organisms in the sea.
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Maui Nui
Maui Nui or Greater Maui, is a modern geologists' name given to a prehistoric Hawaiian Island built from seven shield volcanoes.
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Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii.
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Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa (or; Hawaiian:; Long Mountain) is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean.
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Māhukona
Māhukona is a submerged shield volcano on the northwestern flank of the Island of Hawaiokinai.
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Mount Waialeale
Mount Waialeale is a shield volcano and the second highest point on the island of Kauaokinai in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Niihau
Niihau (Hawaiian) is the westernmost and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaiokinai.
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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau.
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Oahu
O‘ahu (often anglicized Oahu) known as "The Gathering Place" is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Oceanography (journal)
Oceanography is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Oceanography Society, that covers ocean science and its applications.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pacific Plate
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Penguin Bank
Penguin Bank is the name given to a now-submerged shield volcano of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Pillow lava
Pillow lavas are lavas that contain characteristic pillow-shaped structures that are attributed to the extrusion of the lava under water, or subaqueous extrusion.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Reef
A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.
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Rift zone
A rift zone is a feature of some volcanoes, especially shield volcanoes, in which a linear series of cracks (or rifts) develops in a volcanic edifice, typically forming into two or three well-defined regions along the flanks of the vent.
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Seamount
A seamount is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock.
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Shield
A shield is a piece of personal armour held in the hand or mounted on the wrist or forearm.
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Shield volcano
A shield volcano is a type of volcano usually composed almost entirely of fluid lava flows.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.
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Subaerial
In natural science, subaerial (literally "under the air"), has been used since 1833, in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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The Oceanography Society
The Oceanography Society (TOS) is a non-profit society founded in 1988, based in Rockville, Maryland, U.S. and incorporated in the District of Columbia.
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Tholeiitic magma series
The tholeiitic magma series, named after the German municipality of Tholey, is one of two main magma series in igneous rocks, the other being the calc-alkaline series.
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Trade winds
The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (also known as U.H. Mānoa, the University of Hawaiʻi, or simply U.H.) is a public co-educational research university as well as the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system.
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Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of pulverized rock, minerals and volcanic glass, created during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Waianae Range
Waianae Range (sometimes referred to as the Waianae Mountains) is the eroded remains of an ancient shield volcano that comprises the western half of the Hawaiian Island of OOkinaahu.
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West Maui Mountains
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West Molokai Volcano
West Molokai Volcano, sometimes called Mauna Loa for the census-designated place, is an extinct shield volcano comprising the western half of Molokai island in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_Hawaiian_volcanoes
