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Science 7 January 1977:
Vol. 195. no. 4273, pp. 61 - 63
DOI: 10.1126/science.195.4273.61
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Chronology of Hawaiian Glaciations

STEPHEN C. PORTER 1, MINZE STUIVER 1, and I. C. YANG 1

1 Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle 98195

Both potassium/argon and carbon-14 ages of lava flows and tephra layers interstratified with glacial deposits on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate that four episodes of ice cap glaciation culminated about 20,000, 55,000, 135,000, and 250,000 years ago. These episodes are correlated with marine isotope stages 2, 4, 6, and 8, marking times of high global ice volume.

Submitted on June 1, 1976
Revised on September 13, 1976


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