Pumice and Other Extraneousvolcanic Materials on Coral Atolls

Sachet, Marie-Hélène (1955). "Pumice and Other Extraneousvolcanic Materials on Coral Atolls". Atoll Research Bulletin. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. 37: 1–27. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.37.1. ISSN 0077-5630.

Abstract: he document addresses pumice and other extraneous volcanic materials on coral atolls, identifies the work under the auspices of the Pacific Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council with a Washington, D.C. date of May 15, 1955, and notes a museum reference involving Gill in the museum of the University of Sydney. It presents the scope as including the occurrence of foreign materials on atolls and the contexts in which they are found. It enumerates materials such as stones and muds located among the roots of drift trees or attributed to transport by drift trees, other pieces of rock, masses of coal, and soil imported by people for various reasons, and it highlights reports of mysterious basalt blocks from various islands with particular interest in such occurrences on Rose Atoll, American. It describes a large mass of foreign rock regarded with mystery by islanders that lay concealed within an ironwood forest of great antiquity, where it is stated to have remained for ages. It records human agency in moving materials, stating that native people were not the only ones to transport stones and soil, and documents that white residents, attempting to cultivate familiar vegetables, brought soil often as ship ballast from higher islands, with specific instances including German activity on Jaluit, the superintendent of the Cable Station doing so on Midway, and more recent smaller quantities brought to Majuro and Johnston Island.

Extra details:

MAG: 2034500252
OpenAlex: W2034500252