By Leonard H. L. Vacher, Terrence M. Quinn
The Geology and Hydrogeology of Carbonate Islands offers a survey of greater than 30 chosen islands resembling Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, coastal Yucatan, Barbados, the Caymans, Isla de Mona, islands of Polynesia, the chefs, Guam, Niue, Nauru, Rottnest Island, the Houtman Abrolhos, islands of the good Barrier Reef and plenty of atolls together with Enewetak, Tarawa, Diego Garcia, Mururoa, and the Cocos Islands. The ebook offers a wealth of observational info and a survey of interpretations at the concerns in the intersection of carbonate geology (depositional structure, diagenetic methods and dolomitization, Cenozoic sea-level historical past, karstification and blue holes) and island hydrology (distribution of unpolluted and brackish groundwater, dual-aquifer conceptualizations, modeling of island lenses, water budgets and water assets, results of climatic adaptations, island karst, endo-upwelling).
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Mauke); these are the islands that spawned the explanation (McNutt and Menard, 1978) of uplift from flexure due to loading from a nearby volcano; the volcano in question is Rarotonga, which is to the side of the line of makatea islands (see Fig. 16-1). In contrast, the Tuamotu Archipelago of atolls occurs on a broad volcanic plateau (at -2,000 m). Mururoa and Fangataufa (Chap. 13), located at the southeastern end of the Tuamotus, were built when the plate moved over the hotspot zone that is associated with the Pitcairn Islands (Chap.
10), and islands along plate margins ("plate-boundary islands"). This book includes a third category (outside the scope of Nunn's book on oceanic islands): carbonate islands along passive continental margins. The diversity and tectonic complexity of composite and carbonate islands of oceanic intraplate settings are illustrated by the summary comments on tectonics in the chapters on French Polynesia (Chaps. 13-15), the Cook Islands (Chap. 16) and Enewetak (Chap. 21). French Polynesia, a region of 2,700 km by 2,300 km, contains five NW-SE archipelagoes (the Tuamotu Archipelago and the Society, Australes, Gambier, and Marquesas Islands; see Chap.