Usage:
Piinaau flow (informal) of Hana Volcanics (HI)
[Hawaiian spelling: Piʻinaʻau (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000); Hāna (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene? to Holocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Piinaau Stream near mouth of Keanae Valley, north coast 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.
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