Usage:
Glenwood Tuff (HI)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not designated.] Named for deposit on Hilo-Volcano road near Glenwood, Island of Hawaii, HI. Occurs on east slope of Mauna Loa near Glenwood, Ferndale, and Olaa, Island of Hawaii, HI (Stone, 1926; Davis and Macdonald, IN Avias and others, 1956; US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Hawaii
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