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Geologic Unit: Diamond Head

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Diamond Head Talus Breccia (HI) considered abandoned. Sediments included in undifferentiated Quaternary alluvium.)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Holocene)


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

[Named from exposures on slopes of Diamond Head, Diamond Head State Monument area, approx. Lat. 21 deg. 15 min. 47 sec. N., Long. 157 deg. 48 min. 53 sec. W., Honolulu 7.5-min quadrangle, Honolulu Co., Island of Oahu, HI (Wentworth, 1926).]


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 ([ ]).