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Geologic Unit: Aliamanu

Usage:

Aliamanu flow (and associated cone) (informal) of Honolulu Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Āliamanu (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 2000).]

Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

[Type locality not designated.] Named from Aliamanu Crater, from which it was erupted, [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, IN Stearns and Vaksvik, 1935).


AAPG geologic province:

Oahu*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).