Usage:
Big Falls flows (informal) of Hana Volcanics (HI)
[Hawaiian spelling: Hāna (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene? and Holocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Principal reference]: exposures on face of Big Falls on Hanawi Stream, Haleakala (East Maui) volcano, Nahiku area, [in vicinity of Hanawi Springs, approx. Lat. 20 deg. 48 min. 53 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 06 min. 15 sec. W., Nahiku 7.5-min quadrangle], eastern part of Island of Maui, Maui Co., HI (Macdonald and Davis, IN Avias, 1956).
Named for occurrence at Big Falls on Hanawi Stream, Nahiku area, Haleakala (East Maui) volcano, Island of Maui, HI (Stearns and Macdonald, 1942).
AAPG geologic province:
Maui
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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