Usage:
Honomanu Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Honomanū (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Northeast slope of Honomanu Gulch [Lat. 20 deg. 51 min. 51 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 10 min. 11 sec. W., Keanae 7.5-min quadrangle] eastern part of Island of Maui, HI (Stearns and Macdonald, 1942).
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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