Usage:
/Black Point Limestone (HI)
[Preoccupied. Name preempted by Black Point basalt of Stearns (1935) at same location.]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Principal reference]: east shore of Black Point [Kupikipikio Point, Lat. 21 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 157 deg. 47 min. 40 sec. W., Honolulu 7.5-min quadrangle, Honolulu Co.], Island of Oahu, HI (Macdonald and Davis, IN Avias, 1956).
[Named from Black Point (variant name of Kupikipikio Point), Island of Oahu, HI (Stearns, 1940).]
AAPG geologic province:
Oahu
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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