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Catering Meetings and Events at Waikiki Beach Hawaii Resort & Spa A meeting facility with more than 50,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor function: the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and Spa. home meetings & events catering -- -- Let us show you exclusive offers & updates tailored to your interests. RFP meeting services meeting rooms hot dates catering floor plans Looking for a venue for that special occasion such as a luncheon, fundraising dinner, 1st birthday, theme parties or weddings, the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and Spa has the Request a Proposal Fact Sheet Floor Plans Capacity Chart Book a Meeting perfect venue for you. With over 50,000 square feet of indoor / outdoor function space, your event will have just the right setting. Our professional sales and service managers are dedicated to making your event a memorable experience and are here to assist in the planning of your event. Our renowned Chef has created menus that will satisfy anyone's taste. Come and see why the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa is the talk of the Island when it comes to catering and themed events. home resort overview accommodations check rates reserve now packages specials meetings & events weddings spa olakino things to do resort dining resort activities news press room take a tour contact privacy policy site map 2552 Kalakaua Avenue Honolulu, Hawaii 96815-3699 RES 1.800.367.5370 PH: 1.808.922.6611 FAX: 1.808.921-5255 ©2005 Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa Developed by Symbolic

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Kauai Gifts and souvenirs: Information about where to buy Hawaii gifts for Christmas, weddings, and other special events. Kauai Hawaii Gifts - Kauai vacation and tourist information directory Home Kauai Activities Kauai Luxury Rentals Kauai Weddings and wedding Coordinator Kauai Wedding Photography Kauai Hawaii Photographer Kauai Sailing tours and Boat Charters to the Napali Coast Kauai vacation rentals Kauai Catamaran Kauai Motorcycle Rentals Kauai Rentals Kauai Bed and Breakfast Kauai Cottage Kauai Hotels Kauai Inn Kauai Condos Kauai Art Galleries Kauai T-Shirts Kauai Wedding Flowers Kauai Hawaii Gifts and online shopping Kauai Artist and Painter Kauai Video Production Kauai Bars, Restaurants, and entertainment Kauai Real Estate agents Kauai Music and wedding Musicians Hawaii Travel Agents Poipu Vacation Rentals Poipu Oceanfront Rentals Poipu Condos Princeville Condo Sayulita Mexico vacation rentals Hawaii Music Kauai Rental Cars KAUAI GIFTS AND SOUVENIRS Here at Tropic Isle Music among the thousands of Hawaiian gifts and authentic products from Hawaii, you can easily find the perfect Hawaii Christmas gift, Anniversary, Wedding or Birthday present. Our online Hawaii shopping mall is filled with unique tropical Hawaii products - Hawaiian Heirloom Jewelry, a large selection of Hawaiian music and art, Hawaiian Books, Hawaii hula skirts and aloha shirts, Hawaiian gift baskets, Hawaiian Christmas gifts, Hawaiian food and much more. Click here to visit the web site Custom Hawaii t-shirts make perfect gifts for any occasion. Kauai's own Nite Owl T-shirts have created the finest original Hawaiian screen printed t-shirts you can find in the Islands. Nite Owl also offers a wide variety of high quality and original tank tops, beach cover-ups, sweatshirts and combination outfits. All designs are originally created and reflect the true spirit of aloha. Click here to visit the web site Creative Art Gifts, is a gallery of custom designed products that offer a unique way to get your creative juices flowing and to take part in designing your own gift for you or someone you love. Make your own custom designed gifts from our original artwork or send us your own images! Just imagine, creative art gifts such as coffee Mugs (11oz), t-shirts, Matted Prints (11x 14) Mouse Pads, ceramic tiles, or greeting cards that can be designed by you from our on-line gallery of innovative images by Hawaii Artist: K. Richardson Click here to visit the web site Kela's is an experienced online art glass gallery representing over 120 fine glass artists whose work is not only a pleasure to own, but they also make unusual and unique gifts. Browsing this art glass gallery will provide you with a myriad of Christmas gift ideas, as well as birthday, anniversary, and wedding gift ideas. As a purveyor of contemporary glass art, our gallery seeks out and finds outstanding blown glass art work. They are the only exclusively contemporary glass art gallery in the State of Hawaii. Click Here to visit the web site KAUAI AIR TOURS KAUAI HELICOPTER TOURS KAUAI ATTRACTIONS KAUAI ATV TOURS KAUAI BICYCLE TOURS KAUAI ECO TOURS KAUAI HIKING TOURS KAUAI HORSEBACK RIDING TOURS KAUAI LAND TOURS KAUAI LUAUS KAUAI ZIP LINE TOURS ( KAUAI ZIPLINE TOURS ) KAUAI DIVING TOURS KAUAI FISHING CHARTERS KAUAI KAYAK TOURS KAUAI SAILING TOURS KAUAI SNORKELLING TOURS KAUAI SURFING AND WINDSURFING LESSONS KAUAI TUBING ADVENTURES NAPALI COAST BOAT TOURS © 2004 Kauai Hawaii Web Design All rights reserved 808-742-7893 Email No portion of this information may be reproduced without express permission of Hawaii Web.

Hawaiian Islands are volcanic

The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands [ HCV Home ][Formation of the Islands][ Active Hawaiian Volcanoes ][ General Info ]    The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic in origin. Each island ismade up of at least one primary volcano, although many islandsare composites of more than one. The Big Island, for instance,is constructed of 5 major volcanoes: Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea,Hualalai and Kohala. Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano onEarth. Kilauea is presently one of the most productive volcanoeson Earth (in terms of how much lava it erupts each year). The primary volcanoes on eachof the islands are known as a shield volcanoes, which are gently sloping mountains produced from a large number of generally very fluid lava flows.    Hawaiian volcanoes primarily erupt a type of rock known as basalt. When molten, basalt produces liquids of relatively high fluidity, compared to volcanoesthat erupt more silica rich magma types such as andesite, dacite or rhyolite. The fluidity of molten basalt favors the formation of lava flows,which is why the Hawaiian volcanoes generally have gentle sloping sides. Bycontrast, lavas with higher silica content are more viscous and commonly produce either thicker, shorter lava flows, thick blocky deposits and/orthick beds of ash that fall from the sky following explosive eruptions.These other types of volcanoes (common outside of Hawaii) are typically steepersided.    The Hawaiian volcanoes were produced by the Hawaiian hot spot, which is presently under the Big Island of Hawaii.The image below shows the islands of the Hawaiian chainand the intervening shallows, banks and reefs along a line from southeastto northwest. Note that the islands of Lanai and Kahoolawe are not shownbecause they would "overlap" with Molokai and Maui, respectively( see the map of the Islands on the Hawaiian Volcanoes page )In general, when you move along the island chain from southeast (Hawaii) to northwest, (Kure), the volcanoes become older and older.     The aging of the islands with distance from the current hot spotis demonstrated in the diagram below, where distance along thechain is approximated as distance away from Kilauea volcano (theyoungest above-sea-level Hawaiian volcano). In fact, even beyond Kurethe Hawaiian chain continues as a series of now-submergedformer islands known collectively as the Emperorseamounts. The two primary volcanoes that make up Oahu (where Honolulu is) have not erupted for well over a million years!    The age trend of the volcanoes is thought to be due tothe way in which the islands are built on the moving sea floor of the NorthPacific Ocean: the Pacific Ocean is mostly floored by a single tectonic plate(known as the "Pacific Plate")that is moving over the layer in the Earth known as the Asthenosphere.This movement takes it to the northwest compared to the layers below itat a rate of 5 to 10 cm/yr (the rate depends on where you are on it). As theplate moves over a fixed spot deeper in the Earth where magma (moltenlava) forms, a new volcano can punch through this plate and createan island. The Hawaiian Islands are believed to be formed from onesuch 'hot spot'. As the plate moves away, the volcano stops eruptingand a new one is formed in its place. With time, the volcanoes keepdrifting westward and getting older relative to the one active volcanothat is over the hot spot. As they age, the crust upon which they sitcools and subsides. This, combined with erosion of the islands onceactive volcanism stops, leads to a shrinking of the islands with ageand their eventual submergence below the ocean surface.    Importantly, the time over which various active volcanoes on the islandsremain active is long (hunders of thousands of years) so that significantoverlap in ages occur on neighboring islands. For instance although Haleakala volcano on Mauiis a great distance away from the presently erupting Kilauea, Haleakalalast erupted only about 200 years ago. Currently there are 3 Hawai'ian volcanoes that we can easily classify as active: Kilauea, actively erupting since 1983 Mauna Loa, which last erupted in 1984 and is building for a new eruption inthe next few years Loihi, which erupted in 1996   All three of these active Hawaiian volcanoes sharethe Hawaiian hot spot, but retain unique volcanic histories and compositions.You can view a schematic representationof the geometry of this situation HERE The most likely Dormant volcanoes are: Hualalai, which last erupted in 1801 Haleakala, which last erupted in about 1790 Mauna Kea, which last erupted about 4,000 years ago.    Here is some additional general age information from USGS Professional Paper 1350 , Chapter 1 by Clague and Dalrymple, pages 5-54 (1987). Data from that source has been augmented by data and information in Garcia et al. Lithos , vol 20, pages 323-336 (1987) and Clague (1996) in The Origin and Evolution of Pacific Island biotas, New Guniea to Eastern Polynesia, patterns and processes (Keast and Miller, editors), pages 35-50. Ages of some of the Hawaiian Islands and outer seamounts Volcano Number (see note at table bottom) Volcano Name Distance from Kilauea along trend of chain (km) Best K-Ar age (Ma) Data Source (tabulated below) 1 Kilauea 0 0-0.4 -- 3 Mauna Kea 54 0.375 + 0.05 1 5 Kohala 100 0.43 + 0.02 2 6 Haleakala 182 0.75 + 0.04 3 7 Kahoolawe 185 > 1.03 + 0.18 3 8 West Maui 221 1.32 + 0.04 4 9 Lanai 226 1.28 + 0.04 5 10 East Molokai 256 1.76 + 0.04 3 11 West Molokai 280 1.90 + 0.06 3 12 Koolau 339 2.6 + 0.1 4,6 13 Waianae 374 3.7 + 0.1 6 14 Kauai 519 5.1 + 0.20 7 15 Niihau 565 4.89 + 0.11 8 15A Kaula 600 4.0 + 0.2 21 17 Nihoa 780 7.2 + 0.3 9 20 Unnamed 913 9.2 + 0.8 20 930 9.6 + 0.8 22 23 Necker 1,058 10.3 + 0.4 9 26 La Perouse Pinnacles 1,209 12.0 + 0.4 9 27 Brooks Bank 1,256 13.0 + 0.6 20 1,330 13.0 + 0.6 22 30 Gardner Pinnacles 1,435 12.3 + 1.0 20 1,460 12.3 + 1.0 22 36 Laysan 1,818 19.9 + 0.3 10 37 Northampton Bank 1,841 26.6 + 2.7 10 50 Pearl and Hermes Reef 2,281 20.6 + 2.7 11 52 Midway 2,432 27.7 + 0.6 12 57 Unnamed 2,600 28.0 + 0.4 11 63 Unnamed 2,825 27.4 + 0.5 11 65 Colohan 3,128 38.6 + 0.3 13 65A Abbott 3,280 38.7 + 0.9 13 67 Daikakuji 3,493 42.4 + 2.3 14 69 Yuryaku 3,520 43.4 + 1.6 11 72 Kimmei 3,668 39.9 + 1.2 14 74 Koko (southern) 3,758 48.1 + 0.8 14,15 81 Ojin 4,102 55.2 + 0.7 16 83 Jingu 4,175 55.4 + 0.9 17 86 Nintoku 4,452 56.2 + 0.6 16 90 Suiko (southern) 4,794 59.6 + 0.6 18,19 91 Suiko (central) 4,860 64.7 + 1.1 16 Data Sources: 1. Porter and others (1977) 12. Dalrymple and others (1977) 2. McDougall and Swanson (1972) 13. Duncan and Clague (1984) 3. Naughton and others (1980) 14. Dalrymple and Clague (1976) 4. Mcdougall (1964) 15. Clague and Dalrymple (1973) 5. Bonhommet and others (1977) 16. Dalrymple and others (1980a) 6. Doel and Dalrymple (1973) 17. Dalrymple and Garcia (1980) 7. McDougall (1979) 18. Saito and Ozima (1975) 8. G.B. Dalrymple (unpub. Data, 1982) 19. Saito and Ozima (1977) 9. Dalrymple and others (1974) 20. Garcia and others (1986b) 10. Dalrymple and others (1981) 21.Garcia and others (1986a) 11. Clague and others (1975) 22. Garcia and Others (1987) Other Notes: "Volcano Number" refers to the number in sequence along the HawaiianChain. Loihi, the youngest expression of the Hawaiian hot spot isnumber 0, Kilauea is number 1, etc.. Note that not all volcanoesare listed in the table (e.g., number 2 = Mauna Loa and number 4 =Hualalai); also note that further up the chain, the numbering schemebecomes more subjective. HCV Home Hawaiian Volcanoes Loihi Kilauea Mauna Loa Hualalai This page created and maintained by Ken Rubin ©, krubin@soest.hawaii.edu Other credits for this web site. Last page update on 4 Apr 2005

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