Usage:
Makaweli Member of Waimea Canyon Basalt (HI*)
Subunits:
Mokuone Breccia Beds.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
West wall of Makaweli River Canyon, on southwest side of shield [Lat. 21 deg. 58 min. 08 sec. N., Long. 159 deg. 39 min. 28 sec. W., Hanapepe 7.5 quadrangle] Island of Kauai, HI (Macdonald and others, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Kauai
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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