Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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Olorua I. Plan, indicating direction of dip -> of bedded strata. This strata consists of the following:- Brown, fine grain sand, about 1/2 inch in thickness } Predominating Cinerous " " " " " " " " Olive coarse " " up to 1 or 2 inches " Several such Small lava pebbles imbedded in coarse sand, up to 3 or four inches thick Occasional This bedded material is overlaid by coarse tuff (?) [much the same type of material that Punchbowl is composed of]. Through the latter are dykes of lava, especially at the north end. The bedding is only visible on the west side, the more gentle, wooded east slopes being covered with partially disin- tergrated lava and tuff (?) and loose hard pebbles of the former on the surface. The west side has a sand beach along the central portion. Patch of low plume grass (No. 521) in a small pocket off the beach. Abundant anthrocyan in young growth of several species of trees. Caught some small beetles and a spider "whacking" it. Small beach on north side with patch of Ipomoea pes-capri which has taken on an erect habit of growth from the running underground stems - up to 1 1/2 feet high. Purplish flowers and brown, spherical capsules which split both ways at right angles across top exposing small brown hairy seeds.