Usage:
Paakea flow (informal) of Hana Volcanics (HI)
[Hawaiian spelling: Paʻakea (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 2002); Hāna (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Subunits:
Named unit in Hana Volcanic Series (Stearns and Macdonald, 1942). Age modified (Macdonald and Davis IN Avias, 1956). Abandoned; renamed as informal unit, Paakea flow of Hana Volcanics (Langenheim and Clague, 1987)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene? to Holocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Paakea Gulch [Lat. 20 deg. 49 min. 21 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 07 min. 06 sec. W., Nahiku 7.5-min quadrangle], Nahiku area, northeast side of Island of Maui, HI (Macdonald and Davis, IN Avias, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Maui
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