Usage:
Kaau flows (and associated tuff and mudflow deposits) (informal) of Honolulu Volcanics (HI)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kaʻau (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date.
AAPG geologic province:
Oahu
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).