Named for exposures along Makaino Stream, Nahiku area, E Maui. Included as unit of Hana volcanic series. Is single narrow lava flow of nonporphyritic aa with plates of feldspar. Maximum thickness is 125 ft. Unconformably underlies Mossman picritic basalt (new) and Kuhiwa basaltic andesite (new). Overlies Waiaaka basaltic andesite (new) and Big Falls picrite basalts (new) (all units of Hana volcanic series). Map shows middle(?) and late Pleistocene and Recent age.
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Type locality: exposures along Makaino Stream [20 deg 49' 00"N, 156 deg 07' 00"W, Nahiku area, east Maui]. [Makaino Stream not on topo map]. Assigned Pleistocene(?) age. [no basis given]
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
Makaino Basaltic Andesite of Stearns and Macdonald (1942) abandoned as formally named unit and called Makaino flow of Hana Volcanics. Hana Volcanics assigned Pleistocene(?) and Holocene age.
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