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Volcanic breccia and hyaloclastite in blocks from the Nuuanu and Wailau landslides, Hawaii Volcanic breccia and hyaloclastite in blocks from the Nuuanu and Wailau landslides, Hawaii

Steep slopes of giant landslide blocks in the Nuuanu and Wailau landslides expose fragmental volcanic rocks subdivided into monomict and polymic t hyaloclastite and breccia. The various samples form as 1) secondary slopemantling unlithified polymict breccia consisting of clasts set in a mud matrix; 2 ) monomict and polymict hyaloclastite and polymict breccia, with zeolite cement, that...
Authors
D. Clague, James G. Moore, A. S. Davis

Geodynamo Geodynamo

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Authors
Jeffrey J. Love

Transforming the Rockies: Human forces, settlement patterns, and ecosystem effects Transforming the Rockies: Human forces, settlement patterns, and ecosystem effects

The current ecological condition of the Rocky Mountains can be viewed from two somewhat opposing perspectives. The first is that human occupation has had relatively little effect on the Rockies: large natural, if not pristine, areas remain, and the region's open spaces provide wildlife habitat, majestic scenery, and a sense of wildness. Unlike the situation in, say, the Swiss Alps, where...
Authors
William R. Travis, David M. Theobald, Daniel B. Fagre
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