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Excerpt from Lavas of Hawaii and Their Relations
Whether the earliest eruptions began at many points at about the same time, as J. D. Dana supposed, or whether the oldest center is at the northwest limit of the chain, is a question not entirely settled, it seems to me. The oldest volcanoes known are now represented by islets or mere reefs of basalt rising but a few feet above the sea. Possibly the earliest volcanoes of this chain have wholly disappeared through cataclysmic disturbances or long-continued erosion, such as has greatly reduced the bulk of even the more recent islands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
