Documents

Offline logistics packet

Type

Field packet

Note

Compact offline PDF with itinerary, basecamp, contact, payment, permit, and equipment logistics pulled from the site data.

Printable field maps for notes

Type

Field packet

Note

Landscape letter satellite and elevation maps for Atiu, Mangaia, Mauke, and Mitiaro, prepared for printed field notes.

Printable field maps for notes - black and white

Type

Field packet

Note

Landscape letter satellite maps plus light black-and-white elevation maps for drawing field notes on top.

Geology of Mangaia

Authors

P. Marshall

Year

1927

Note

Early Bishop Museum description of Mangaia, including the fringing reef, terrace slope, makatea, volcanic core, and geologic history.

Geology of Rarotonga and Atiu

Authors

P. Marshall

Year

1930

Note

Full Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 72 scan covering Rarotonga and Atiu geology, including reef flats, makatea, igneous rocks, caves, and mapped coastal sections.

Th230/U238 and U234/U238 ages of Pleistocene high sea level stand

Authors

H. Herbert Veeh

Year

1966

Note

Reports uranium-series ages for fossil corals from emerged reefs, including two Mangaia samples used in later southern Cook Islands terrace syntheses.

Geology of the Cook Islands

Authors

B. L. Wood

Year

1967

Note

Geologic overview of all 15 islands, including volcanic history, makatea, and atoll development.

Notes on late quaternary sea levels, Fiji and Rarotonga

Authors

J. C. Schofield

Year

1970

Note

Early NZ geologic survey of Rarotonga carbonates.

Lithospheric response to volcanic loading in the Southern Cook Islands

Authors

Kurt Lambeck

Year

1981

Note

Uses uplift, bathymetry, and geoid data to model lithospheric flexure beneath the southern islands.

Holocene emergence in the Cook Islands, South Pacific

Authors

C. D. Woodroffe, D. R. Stoddart, T. Spencer, T. P. Scoffin, and A. W. Tudhope

Year

1990

Note

Documents Holocene emergent reef, algal-ridge, notch, and radiocarbon evidence from Suwarrow, Mitiaro, Mauke, Atiu, and Mangaia.

Mauke, Mitiaro and Atiu: Geomorphology of Makatea Islands in the Southern Cooks

Authors

D. R. Stoddart, C. D. Woodroffe, and T. Spencer

Year

1990

Note

Atoll Research Bulletin 341 survey of makatea geomorphology, topographic profiles, Pleistocene limestones, coastal morphology, and Holocene coastal features on Mauke, Mitiaro, and Atiu.

Stratigraphy and Chronology of Late Pleistocene Reefs in the Southern Cook Islands, South Pacific

Authors

Colin D. Woodroffe and Stephen A. Short

Year

1991

Note

Describes fossil reef and ages to constrain late Pleistocene sea-level history across the southern group.

Geochronology and subsurface stratigraphy of Pukapuka and Rakahanga atolls, Cook Islands: Late Quaternary reef growth and sea level history

Authors

Sarah C. Gray, James R. Hein, Ruth Hausmann, and Ulrich Radtke

Year

1992

Note

ESR and U-series ages from cores drilled in Pukapuka and Rakahanga atolls, northern Cook Islands

Viscosity structure of the oceanic lithosphere inferred from the differential late Quaternary sea-level variations for the southern Cook Islands

Authors

Masao Nakada

Year

1996

Note

Discusses lithospheric flexure beneath the southern islands using uplift, bathymetry, and geoid data.

Holocene changes in sea level and coastal environments on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific Ocean

Authors

Hiroshi Moriwaki, Masashi Chikamori, Mitsuru Okuno, and Toshio Nakamura

Year

2006

Note

Reconstructs mid- to late-Holocene shoreline development on eastern Rarotonga from geomorphic mapping, coring, excavation, and radiocarbon dates.

Dominant influence of volcanic loading on vertical motions of the Hawaiian Islands

Authors

Kimberly L. Huppert, Leigh H. Royden, and J. Taylor Perron

Year

2015

Note

Uses paleoshorelines and tide-gauge data to show that volcanic loading explains hotspot-island uplift and subsidence.

Coral Reefs and Sea-Level Change: Quaternary Records and Modelling

Authors

Gilbert F. Camoin and Nadine Hallmann

Year

2022

Note

IAS Special Publication on Quaternary reef records and sea-level modelling, including Cook Islands reef-terrace context.

Discovery of young submarine volcanism in the Cook Islands: New constraints on the location of the Rarotonga hotspot

Authors

Yifan Du et al.

Year

2026

Note

Identifies very young submarine volcanism and sharpens the inferred position of the Rarotonga hotspot.