And to add to my documentation - recall it was thousands and thousands
of years ago unless
the one was a land form. Remember I stated the large sand locations
(5-600 feet deep) were
raised 400 feet into the air when the coast was elevated by local
volcano and naturally the
thrust of the Pacific Plate driving North along the North American
plate. So these shells would
be long dead or converted to stone.
I would expect the warm tropical waters and rich food waters micros
would move in during
the next fertile period.
Martin
Fabio Moretzsohn wrote:
> I lived in Hawaii for 10 years, and during that period there was some
> "beach rejuvenation" done in Waikiki, to keep the beach wide enough to
> accommodate all the tourists, while the sea takes some sand away. I do
> not know where the sand came from, I just assumed it came from
> offshore in Hawaii. I am not aware that the sand came from elsewhere,
> especially far away. I would think that would be too expensive to
> bring hundreds of barges full of sand just to make the beach look
> pretty (but I guess anything is possible).
>
> During my graduate school at the University of Hawaii, I worked for my
> professor, Dr. E. Alison Kay (author of Hawaiian Marine Shells) , on a
> biomonitoring project using micromollusks, like tens of other grad
> students over the last three decades she studied micros. Most of the
> stations we checked were in Sand Island, Barbers Point and Waianae,
> all on Oahu, but occasionally we also got samples from Waikiki. Those
> were offshore, not from the beach. I actually never looked at sand
> samples collected from Waikiki beach, but I can guarantee that there
> will be a lot of Hawaiian micromollusks in the sand, even if the sand
> came from elsewhere. This is because Hawaii has hundreds of species of
> micros, and the reefs in Waikiki are home to many native (and probably
> some introduced species as well), so over time the ocean will deposit
> micros onto the beach. The only way you would not find any Hawaiian
> micros on the beach sand is if the sand just came off a barge from
> elsewhere.
>
> Fabio M.
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2007 4:33 PM, David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> However, on the stopover in Hawaii in 2005, when we went to
> Waikiki for the last half hour of light I found plenty of micros
> in the sand. Those weren't Santa Cruz micros but Indo-Pacific
> ones. Don't tell me those were trucked in just for me....How nice
> of the tourist industry folks!
>
> David Kirsh
> Durham, NC
>
>
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty,
> and besides, the pig likes it." -- G.B. Shaw
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