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Geologic Unit: Koloa

Usage:

Koloa Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kōloa (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2010).]


Subunits:

Palikea Breccia Member (HI*).


Geologic age:

late Tertiary to Quaternary (Pliocene to Pleistocene)*


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

In vicinity of town of Koloa [Lat. 21 deg. 56 min. 12 sec., N., Long. 159 deg. 28 min. 45 sec., W., Koloa 7.5-min quadrangle] on southern side of Island of Kauai, HI (Davis and Macdonald IN Avias, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Kauai*


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

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

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