Usage:
Kula Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kula (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Along Highway 37 near Waiakoa about 7 km northeast of Kula Hospital [Lat. 20 deg. 45 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 19 min. 48 sec. W., Kilohana 7.5-min quadrangle], east part of Island of Maui, HI (Langenheim and Clague, 1987; Macdonald and Davis IN Avias, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Maui
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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