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Geologic Unit: Hawi

Usage:

Hawi Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Hāwī (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2010).]


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Type section: in quarry of Kohala Sugar Company, 0.5 mi east of Hawi in Kumakua Gulch, Kohala Volcano [Lat. 20 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 49 min. 18 sec. W., Hawi 7.5-min quadrangle], Island of Hawaii, HI (Stearns and Macdonald, 1946).


AAPG geologic province:

Hawaii


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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