Usage:
No current usage.
(†Fort Shafter Gravel (HI) considered abandoned. Sediments included in undifferentiated Quaternary alluvium.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Principal reference locality]: bluff on edge of Fort Shafter Terrace overlooking Moanalau Gardens and lower gorge of Moanalau Stream, south side of Koolau Range about 17 mi west of Makapuu Head, Island of Oahu, HI (Macdonald and Davis IN Avias, 1956).
[Named from Fort Shafter military post in Honolulu (approx. Lat. 21 deg. 20 min. 26 sec. N., Long. 157 deg. 52 min. 51 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.
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