Usage:
Laina flows and cinder cone (informal) in Lahaina Volcanics (HI)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Puu Laina [now Puʻulaina (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 1980)] cinder cone near village of Mala [Lat. 20 deg. 52 min. 58 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 40 min. 16 sec. W., Lahaina 7.5-min quadrangle], eastern part of Island of Maui, HI (Macdonald and Davis, IN Avias, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Maui
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