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Geologic Unit: Waikahalulu

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Waikahalulu Volcanic Member of Laupahoehoe Volcanics (HI) reallocated to Laupahoehoe Volcanics and Liloe Spring Volcanic Member of Hamakua Volcanics. See Laupahoehoe and Liloe Spring.)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: at upper end of Waikahalulu Gulch, west of Summit Road [Lat. 19 deg. 43 min. 57 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 31 min. 45 sec. W., Puu Koli 7.5-min quadrangle] Mauna Kea Volcano, Island of Hawaii, HI (Porter, 1979).


AAPG geologic province:

Hawaii


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

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

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