U.S. Geological Survey Home AASG Logo USGS HOME CONTACT USGS SEARCH USGS
National Geologic Map Database

Geologic Unit: Paakea

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


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).