Western Coastal & Marine Geology
360° panorama created with photos taken from the Kawela ahupua‘a on the south coast of Moloka‘i.
Pan and zoom around the photo by clicking your mouse and dragging left and right, and up and down. With your mouse positioned on top of the photo, hold down the shift key to zoom in, or the control key to zoom out.
The USGS logo is centered in the direction of south-southeast. From this vantage point, you can see the complex structure of the reef flat in this area. The inner and middle portions of the reef flat at Kawela are a mixture of terrestrial mud, algae-covered platform, and uncolonized sand (light blue areas). A few live corals grow on ridges (brown linear features) near the seaward edge of the reef flat. The dark blue water offshore from where the waves break on the reef crest is where the fore reef drops off into the Kalohi Channel.
The island of Lāna‘i can be seen south of Moloka‘i across the channel. Just visible to the east of Moloka‘i, with its summit obscured by the clouds, is Haleakalā on the island of Maui. Almost invisible through the haze, to the southeast of Moloka‘i between Maui and Lāna‘i, is the tiny low-lying island of Kaho‘olawe.
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U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://coralreefs.wr.usgs.gov/kawela_pano.html
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Page Last Modified: 10 January 2008 (lzt)
