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Geologic Unit: Honolua

Usage:

Honolua Volcanics (HI*)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Village of Honolua [Lat. 21 deg. 00 min. 59 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 38 min. 26 sec. W., Honolua 7.5-min quadrangle] on northwest coast of Island of Maui, HI (Macdonald and Davis IN Avias, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Maui


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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