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Lanai Island, Maui County, Hawaii, USA i
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Lanai Island Island
Maui County County
Hawaii State
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Lanai Island	Island
Maui County	County
Hawaii	State
USA	Country

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Lanai Island, Maui County, Hawaii, USA

Halite

Lanai Island, Maui County, Hawaii, USA

Halite

Lanai Island, Maui County, Hawaii, USA

Locality type:

Island

Age:

1.25 ± 0.04 Ma

Geologic Time:

Pleistocene

Dating method:

Ar/Ar

Reference for age:

Bonhommet, N., Beeson, M. H., & Dalrymple, G. B. (1977). A contribution to the geochronology and petrology of the island of Lanai, Hawaii. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 88(9), 1282-1286. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1977)88<1282:ACTTGA>2.0.CO;2

Largest Settlements:

Place	Population
Lanai City	3,102 (2017)

Other Languages:

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French:

Lanai, Comté de Maui, Hawaï, États-Unis

German:

Lānaʻi, Maui County, Hawaii, Vereinigte Staaten

Italian:

Lanai, Contea di Maui, Hawaii, Stati Uniti d'America

Russian:

Ланаи, Мауи, Гавайи, Соединённые Штаты Америки

Simplified Chinese:

拉奈島, 茂宜县, 夏威夷州, 美国

Spanish:

Lanai, Condado de Maui, Hawái, Estados Unidos

Afrikaans:

Lanai, Hawaii, Verenigde State van Amerika

Asturian:

Lanai, Ḥawai, Estaos Xuníos d'América

Basque:

Lanai, Maui konderria, Hawaii

Belarusian:

Ланаі, Гаваі, Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі

Catalan:

Lanai, Comtat de Maui, Hawaii, Estats Units d’Amèrica

Cebuano:

Lāna‘i, Maui County, Hawaii

Czech:

Lanai, Havaj, Spojené státy americké

Dutch:

Lanai, Maui County, Hawaï, Verenigde Staten

Egyptian Arabic:

لاناى, هاواى, امريكا

Esperanto:

Lanai, Havajo

Estonian:

Lanai, Hawaii osariik, Ameerika Ühendriigid

Farsi/Persian:

لانائی, شهرستان ماویی، هاوایی, هاوایی, ایالات متحده آمریکا

Finnish:

Lanai, Havaiji, Yhdysvallat

Galician:

Lanai, Hawai, Estados Unidos de América

Greek:

Λανάι, Χαβάη, Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής

Hawaiian:

Lāna‘i, Hawai‘i, ‘Amelika Hui Pū ‘ia

Hebrew:

לאנאי, מחוז מאווי, הוואי, ארצות הברית

Hungarian:

Lanai, Maui megye, Hawaii, Amerikai Egyesült Államok

Indonesian:

Lanai, Maui County, Hawaii, Amerika Serikat

Irish Gaelic:

Lanai, Contae Maui, Haváí, Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá

Japanese:

ラナイ島, マウイ郡, ハワイ州, アメリカ合衆国

Korean:

라나이섬, 하와이주, 미국

Lithuanian:

Lanai, Havajai, Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos

Malay:

Lanai, Hawaii, Amerika Syarikat

Norwegian:

Lanai, Maui County, Hawaii, USA

Occitan:

Lanai, Hawaii, Estats Units d'America

Polish:

Lānaʻi, Hrabstwo Maui, Hawaje, Stany Zjednoczone

Portuguese:

Lanai, Condado de Maui, Havaí, Estados Unidos

Serbian:

Ланај, Округ Мауи, Хаваји, Сједињене Америчке Државе

Swedish:

Lanai, Maui County, Hawaii, USA

Ukrainian:

Ланаї, Мауї, Гаваї, Сполучені Штати Америки

Urdu:

لانائی, ماوئی کاؤنٹی، ہوائی, ہوائی, ریاستہائے متحدہ امریکا

Vietnamese:

Lanai, Quận Maui, Hawaii, Chủng Quốc Hoa Kỳ

West Frisian:

Lanaï, Hawaï, Feriene Steaten

Wu Chinese:

拉奈岛, 夏威夷州, 美国

Lanai is the subaerial part of a single shield volcano rising over 3000 m from the seafloor. The island is built of basaltic lavas with a few mixed cinder and spatter cones, which erupted from c. 375 feeder dikes concentrated in 2 intersecting rift zones, and a summit caldera (Stearns 1940; 1946).

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Mineral List

ⓘ Augite

ⓘ 'Fayalite-Forsterite Series'

ⓘ 'Hypersthene'

ⓘ 'Plagioclase'

1 valid mineral.

Rock Types Recorded

Note: data is currently VERY limited. Please bear with us while we work towards adding this information!

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ⓘ Basalt

ⓘ 'Tholeiitic basalt'

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ⓘ Augite

Formula: (Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆

Reference: Stearns, H. T. (1940). Geology and ground-water resources of the islands of Lanai and Kahoolawe, Hawaii. Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, 6, 63-147. Stearns, H. T. (1946). Geology of the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, 8, 1-105. Macdonald, G. A. (1940). The petrography of Lanai and Kahoolawe. Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, 6, 61-63. Bonhommet, N., Beeson, M. H., & Dalrymple, G. B. (1977). A contribution to the geochronology and petrology of the island of Lanai, Hawaii. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 88(9), 1282-1286. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1977)88<1282:ACTTGA>2.0.CO;2 West, H. B., Garcia, M. O., Gerlach, D. C., & Romano, J. (1992). Geochemistry of tholeiites from Lanai, Hawaii. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(4), 520-542. doi.org/10.1007/BF00310782

ⓘ 'Fayalite-Forsterite Series'

ⓘ 'Hypersthene'

Formula: (Mg,Fe)SiO₃

ⓘ 'Plagioclase'

Formula: (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈

Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 9 - Silicates
ⓘ	Augite	9.DA.15	(Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆
Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc.
ⓘ	'Fayalite-Forsterite Series'	-
ⓘ	'Hypersthene'	-	(Mg,Fe)SiO₃
ⓘ	'Plagioclase'	-	(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈

List of minerals for each chemical element

O	Oxygen
O	ⓘ Augite	(Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆
O	ⓘ Hypersthene	(Mg,Fe)SiO₃
O	ⓘ Plagioclase	(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈
Na	Sodium
Na	ⓘ Plagioclase	(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈
Mg	Magnesium
Mg	ⓘ Augite	(Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆
Mg	ⓘ Hypersthene	(Mg,Fe)SiO₃
Al	Aluminium
Al	ⓘ Plagioclase	(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈
Si	Silicon
Si	ⓘ Augite	(Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆
Si	ⓘ Hypersthene	(Mg,Fe)SiO₃
Si	ⓘ Plagioclase	(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈
Ca	Calcium
Ca	ⓘ Augite	(Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆
Ca	ⓘ Plagioclase	(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi₂]O₈
Fe	Iron
Fe	ⓘ Augite	(Ca_xMg_yFe_z)(Mg_y1Fe_z1)Si₂O₆
Fe	ⓘ Hypersthene	(Mg,Fe)SiO₃

Fossils

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References

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Woolley, A. R. (2019). Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World, Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. Geological Society of London, p. 524.

Stearns, H. T. (1940). Geology and ground-water resources of the islands of Lanai and Kahoolawe, Hawaii. Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, 6, 63-147.

Stearns, H. T. (1946). Geology of the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, 8, 1-105.

Macdonald, G. A. (1940). The petrography of Lanai and Kahoolawe. Hawaii Division of Hydrography Bulletin, 6, 61-63.

West, H. B., Garcia, M. O., Gerlach, D. C., & Romano, J. (1992). Geochemistry of tholeiites from Lanai, Hawaii. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(4), 520-542. doi.org/10.1007/BF00310782

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Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
Wikidata ID:	Q187063
GeoNames ID:	5850056

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