Usage:
Waawaa Trachyte Member of Hualalai Volcanics (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: probably Waʻawaʻa.]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Cone Puu Waawaa [Lat. 19 deg. 47 min. 55 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 53 min. 01 sec. W., Puu Anahulu 7.5-min quadrangle], northern slope of Hualalai Volcano, Island of Hawaii, HI (Davis and Macdonald IN Avias, 1956).
Named from Cone Puu Waawaa (Stearns and Macdonald, 1946). [Now spelled Puʻuwaʻawaʻa (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 2017).]
AAPG geologic province:
Hawaii
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