Author(s)

Emilio Herrero-Bervera

Paleomagnetics and Petrofabrics Laboratory, SOEST-Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.

The Mauna Loa volcano of the Big Island of Hawaii offers the “ad-hoc” lava flows that have recorded the geomagnetic short-term behavior (i.e. excursions) at two key localities such as the younger Kahuku volcanic series (ca. ~41 ka) where 29 flows are exposed for detailed paleomagnetic sampling making up 102 meters of section where the uppermost flow sampled lies directly under the Pahala ash. The second sampling site is the Ninole volcanic series where 25 flows spanning 56 meters of section were also sampled from the northeast and southwest sides of the Kilohana Ridge. The most recent age estimate indicates that the Kahuku flows can correlate well with the transitional/excursional directional results obtained from both volcanic and deep-sea sediments of the global record of the Laschamp (ca. ~41 ka calendar years B.P) excursion and the Ninole flows which are associated to the also global Pringle Fall excursion (ca. 211 ± 13 ka) recorded at the type section.

Ninole Hills, Kahuku Ranch, Mauna Loa Volcano, Laschamp, Pringle Falls Excursion

Herrero-Bervera, E. (2021) On the Possibility of Obtaining Geomagnetic Volcanic Records of the Short-Term Behavior of the Laschamp and Pringle Falls Excursions from the Long Sequence of Kahuku and Ninole Hills, Big Island of Hawaii, USA. Open Journal of Geology, 11, 712-733. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2021.1112035.