Usage:
Castle flow (informal) of Honolulu Volcanics (HI)
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 for occurrence at cinder cone on Castle Ranch, 3 mi west of Kailua and 0.25 mi north of Ulumawao (summit), [Kaneohe 7.5-min quadrangle, Honolulu Co.], Island of Oahu, HI (Stearns, IN Stearns and Vaksvik, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Oahu
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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