Usage:
Kona ash beds (informal) of Hualalai Volcanics (HI)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Kona District [now separated into North Kona and South Kona Districts], on southwest slope of Hualalai Volcano [Kailua 7.5-min quadrangle, North Kona Division], west side of 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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