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  • Usage in publication:
    • Makalapa tuff*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Tuff
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Oahu
Publication:

Stearns, H.T., 1935, Geography and geology, [Island of Oahu, Hawaii], Part 1, IN Stearns, H.T., and Vaksvik, K.N., Geology and ground-water resources of the Island of Oahu, Hawaii: Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, no. 1, p. 3-198.


Summary:

Named for Makalapa Crater, E of Pearl Harbor [Puuloa 7.5' quad] Island of Oahu. Included as unit in middle part of Honolulu volcanic series. Not differentiated in field from Salt Lake tuff --which see. Subaerial gray tuff, about 300 ft thick (indistinguishable from Salt Lake tuff). Overlies Aliamanu tuff and Fort Shafter gravels. Assigned to Waipio stand of sea. Assigned to middle(?) and late Pleistocene age.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Makalapa tuff*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Oahu
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:

Not separated in mapping from Salt Lake tuff. Same fossils as in Salt Lake tuff (which see). Assigned Pleistocene age

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Makalapa tuff*
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Oahu
Publication:

Jackson, E.D., 1966, Eclogite in Hawaiian basalts, IN Geological Survey Research 1966: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 550-D, p. D151-D157.


Summary:

Garnet-bearing peridotite xenoliths have been found in Salt Lake, Aliamanu, and Makalapa Tuffs, nepheline-rich members of Honolulu Volcanic Series. Data insufficient at present as to whether any or all of xenoliths are fragments of oceanic mantle.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Makalapa Tuff†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Oahu
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:

Makalapa Tuff (Stearns, IN Stearns and Vaksvik, 1935) abandoned as formally named unit and called Makalapa tuff cone, informal unit in Honolulu Volcanics.

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


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