POLLEN ANALYSIS OF MARSH/SWAMP DEPOSITS (SITE 3357) AND COASTAL DUNE AND MARSH DEPOSITS (SITES 3362-1 AND 1438-4) AT WEST BEACH, OAHU

Summary

The West Beach project presents the opportunity to study vegetation change

from a time prior to Polynesian settlement, through that settlement, to the

present in an area where little previous pollen analysis has been done. Three

separate stratigraphic columns were sampled for pollen in the coastal dune and

marsh ecozone (I) to establish a pollen record that would document prehistoric

vegetation in this area. Three additional stratigraphic columns from the

marsh/swamp in Ecozone IV, the marshland, were also stratigraphically sampled for

pollen at close intervals to establish a record of prehistoric and historic

vegetation. Pollen analysis focused on recovery of an interpretable pollen

record from these deposits to reconstruct prehistoric vegetation at West Beach,

oahu.

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• PaleoResearch Institute

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