Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Aliamanu Basalt (HI-recognized locally in subsurface) replaced with Aliamanu flow (and associated cone) (informal) of Honolulu Volcanics. See Aliamanu flow (and associated cone).)
[Preoccupied. Name preempted by Aliamanu Tuff of Stearns (1935) at same location.]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not designated.] Named from Aliamanu Crater, within which it occurs, [Aliamanu Military Reservation, approx. Lat. 21 deg. 21 min. 35 sec. N., Long. 157 deg. 54 min. 43 sec. W., Pearl Harbor 7.5-min quadrangle, Honolulu Co.], Island of Oahu, HI (Stearns, 1940).
AAPG geologic province:
Oahu
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