Usage:
Hualalai Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Hualālai (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]
Subunits:
Kona ash beds (infomal) (HI*), Waawaa Trachyte Member (HI*).
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures around town of Kailua [Lat. 19 deg. 38 min. 26 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 59 min. 44 sec. W., Kailua 7.5-min quadrangle] Hualalai Volcano, Island of Hawaii, HI (Davis and Macdonald IN Avias, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Hawaii*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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