Usage:
Kau Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kaʻū (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: western wall of Mokuaweoweo Caldera [Lat. 19 deg. 28 min. 46 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 35 min. 30 sec. W., Mauna Loa 7.5-min quadrangle, Mauna Loa Volcano, Island of Hawaii, HI]. Named from Kau District (Stearns and Macdonald, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Hawaii
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 ([ ]).