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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hualalai volcanic series
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Volcanics
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Hawaii
Publication:

Stearns, H.T., and Macdonald, G.A., 1946, Geology and ground-water resources of the Island of Hawaii: Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, no. 9, 363 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

[Named for Hualalai Volcano]. Is all volcanic rocks of Hualalai Volcano covering about 310 sq mi in northwest part of Island of Hawaii. [Part were formerly Hualalai pyroclastic materials and Kona tuff formation of Wentworth, 1938]. Consists of basalt [unnamed unit] and Waawaa Volcanics (trachyte unit), both prehistoric. Also includes historic flows and cones of 1800-1801. Is largely lava flows of aa and pahoehoe type with cones, cinders, pumice and vitric ash. Maximum exposed thickness is 500 ft in S wall of crater. Base not exposed. Interfingers with Kau volcanic series. Assigned Pleistocene and Recent age because of freshness of flows. "The core of the mountain may be as old as Pliocene." p.139.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hualalai volcanic series*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Hawaii
Publication:

Macdonald, G.A., 1949, Petrography of the Island of Hawaii, IN Shorter contributions to general geology, 1947-1949: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 214-D, p. D51-D96. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp214D]


Summary:

Lavas include olivine basalt, basalt, basalt transitional to picrite-basalt, and andesine andesite (only one flow). Trachyte of Puu Waawaa is large cone from which trachyte flows both preceded and followed by basaltic flows from Hualalai volcanic series. Assigned Pleistocene and Recent age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hualalai volcanic series*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Hawaii
Publication:

Macdonald, G.A., and Davis, D.A., 1956, Zone des Hawaii, Chapter 2, IN Avias, Jacques, and others, Oceanie proprement dite; Fasc. 2 of V. 6, Oceanie: Lexique Stratigraphique International, p. 70-143(?)., Prepared by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), International Geological Congress, Commission on Stratigraphy


Summary:

Includes Kona tuff in part. Interfingers with Kau volcanic series and probably Laupahoehoe volcanic series. Type locality: west slope of Hualalai Volcano near Kailua [19 deg 38' 26"N, 155 deg 59' 44"W, Kailua 7.5 quad] Island of Hawaii, HI.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hualalai Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Hawaii
Publication:

Easton, R.M., and Easton, E.G., 1983, Geology of the Hawaiian Islands; Hawaii, Maui and Oahu; Trip 16, IN Preto, Vic, chairperson, Joint annual meeting of Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, and Canadian Geophysical Union; Volume 2, Trips 9 to 16: Geological Association of Canada, Victoria Section, Field Trip Guidebook, 91 p.


Summary:

Name changed from Hualalai Volcanic Series to Hualalai Formation to conform with revision of the Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature (Henderson and others, 1980). "No systemic attempt is being made to revise volcanic stratigraphic nomenclature'. [Does not include Waawaa Formation since this unit has equal rank?]

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hualalai Volcanics*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Hawaii
Publication:

Langenheim, V.A.M., and Clague, D.A., 1987, Stratigraphic framework of volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands, Part II, IN The Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain, Chapter 1, OF Decker, R.W., Wright, T.L., and Stauffer, P.H., eds., Volcanism in Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, v. 1, 1350, p. 55-84. [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_42485.htm]


Summary:

Reduced in rank from Hualalai Volcanic Series of Stearns and Macdonald (1946) to formation named Hualalai Volcanics to reflect lithology. Waawaa Volcanics is now Waawaa Trachyte Member of unit. Kona Tuff Formation is abandoned as a formal name and is informally called Kona ash beds. Type locality is around town of Kailua, Island of Hawaii.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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