This book, designed for tourists, gives a mile by mile description of the geology along all of the roads on the Island of Hawaii (the Big Island). This guide is illustrated with maps, diagrams, and hundreds of BLACK AND WHITE photos. The color version of this book is Illustrated Geological Guide to the Island of Hawaii.

Geological guide to the Big Island of Hawaii designed for tourists and nature lovers. This book explains, mile by mile, the geology along all of the island's major roads. Several dozen maps and diagrams are included. Format: 6x9 inches. This version does NOT contain any photos. For the same text with BLACK and WHITE photos see: Island of Hawaii Geological Guide. For COLOR photos see: Illustrated Geological Guide to the Island of Hawaii.

This field guide to important geological locations describes the geology and volcanic significant at 39 stops on Oahu. It included a short introduction on how Hawaiian hotspot shield volcanoes formed and emerged from the sea floor. This is followed by the most current understanding of how the island of Oahu formed during the past 5 million years. This guidebook is a travel companion for residents and visitors alike that can easily be carried while you drive and hike to the many locations to see first-hand some of the mysteries geologists have uncovered as you explore our magical island. You will explore the geology of Oahu visiting numerous world-class locations and see many volcanic landforms present at our most informative geological locations. Following the overview of the geology and descriptions of the volcanic rock types found on Oahu we provide a brief overview of the typical life and demise of a Hawaiian hotspot volcano (Chapter 3) and an overview of Oahu's three main shield volcanoes (Chapter 4). Chapters 5 through 8 include the 39 stops depicted by detailed satellite images, topographic maps, high-quality photographs, plots, and illustrative figures that describe what you are looking at as you drive, hike, boat, canoe, walk to these readily accessible locations at your leisure.

A comprehensive look at the entire range of new technologies related to broadband communications--from the physical transmission medium to highspeed data and video services. Offers information on current trends and emerging technologies, including broadband subscriber networks, synchronous optical transmission and networked survivability, TCP/IP protocol suites and the Internet, wireless and IEEE highspeed LANs, data services and ATM networks, MPEG2, highspeed and realtime protocols, and information superhighways and infrastructures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Reports on the domestic water supply derived from rain caught from roofs and some ground wells. Overall, the island has high aridity, unfavorable geologic structures, continuous deposition of salt spray, and abundant authigenic salts in the lake beds.

This book gives tourists mile by mile descriptions of the geology on all of the roads on the Island of Hawai (the Big Island). Many geologic maps, diagrams, and 420 COLOR photographs illustrate this geology. For a less expensive book with BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS see Island of Hawaii Geological Guide by R. Robinson. For a 6x9 version with NO PHOTOS see Geological Guide to the Island of Hawaii.

This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.