Profile of boulder of melitite basalt, September 1956
Item — Box: 1, item: I-111
Profile of a basalt boulder along Waimea Canyon road, Kauai. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Weathering boulder of melitite basalt in substratum of Halii soil (a profile is shown in I100) with top of ruler 18 inches below surface. Hard, bluish, and unweathered basalt remaining is roughly 13x18 inches and next to it is soft clayey plinthite layer 4 1/4 thick, around which are concentric shells of hardened plinthite totalling... 3 1/2 inch thick."
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- Creation: September 1956
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