The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-04-27
WHY OAHU is SAFE.

Honolulu gave them goo'
advie efroma a well another standpoint
Oahu seismic history teaches anything
is the strongest known to nature "
pyramid Miles away from Shore at depth OF IRON 80 i,i and
are its rising with gentle activities ana
long outlying spurs mored and butressed by coral rock to the SURFACE "
the whence the structure mounts gradually 10 s "a
this gigantic pile the part we e on carries
oded rock and accumulation of soil over lava how "
vast antiquity period of eruption 100000 years agoi
about 100000 years ago me a
backab results OF the lava
flows They the island framework
% t handed lgamep of stone and then ages passed,
supporting work making dykes ana "
along the whole pyramid SO that even the power
the prevail against it,
Oahu still has its crae but 1T the WORD OF %
that there has activity period Our local
volcanoes are part extending from the socaed bird
ands-the eoded heghteght hundred miles
time ancient as to count up into the mon
years. spouted little islands When in course of
ages the fire the
southwest the lava building up an island
perhaps of time the process was repeated un
and Oahu lost its fires Then
they the bottom again and made Mooka then Maui
Hawaii And since the day when the lava s"rgea up on @ future
of time enough to make vast and stately pile eN
tending depth of nearly $4,000 feet $4,000
feet in ALL its superficial area above water as large as the state " ~
The of construction must have
million Perhaps million years from now new
isle will start in the ocean depths southwest OF the pig sa
question active volcano Hawaii explode
destroy whole island ehan the heightened archipelago of this group
Science answers win an W.. ., eri +,iv fr pf
Kemp head of the geological department of Columbia University upon at
question:
Therei $ every think that the islands have been
the abysses of the and that
they pile of lava 10000 feet in height
the plotted scale they are found to range
correspond degrees 81 degrees
and il that the rise is extremely gradual
comedies with the of the They
very thus far described in this article
largely materials which have been
QUITO comparatively small which have built
their the angle of for loose materials; but the
Hawaiian piles of huge cos and lava flows with
paratively o. agmental beds THE OTHER
VOLCANOES THUS REFERRED TO HAVE YIELDED,
A RULE suICIoUS AND RoPY OR vIsCoUs LAVAs,
GOOD MATERIAL TO CoNFINE STEAM UNTIL 1T BURSTS
WITH EXPLOSIVE VIOLENCE THE HAWAIIAN LAyAs
EXCLUSIVELY BAsALT; THEY ARE THERE
FUSIBIE MORE FLUID WHEN FUSED AND
ADAPTED TO YIELD TUFTS. While there lack
. of during eruptions while lava
blown high in the the principal product of the
liquid tide which breaks through in the side
the lower down the mountain and which flow
nearly fifty miles
The craes, moreover Of a compare.
lively throat, from which, from safcyvaye the
hoaey into the air find pools
molten of which sheets of
geaed disappear like ice
which surgng and boiling as the rise from the depths
The height a which the stands
time time 1t has been observed with differences
in the same
will explosions be 1t he
added that there signs having occurred the historical past
tradition. their
Nomn did their them back the
fifteenth incident which recorded reasonably verified
the southern beaches Hawaii
during They kuet told their beads Spain
gaeons wrecked this latitude longitude about the
indicated no
would lived Net
tradition evidence
Oahu experiences in long time seismic e but during the
a
been rocked has been killed and brick has fallen
And this is why Oahu a in which live
FTancieans take in.
ALATAU T. ATKINSON.