Usage:
Halape Ash Member of Hilina Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Halapē (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at Keana Bihopa (395 m elevation), Lat. 19 deg. 17 min. 19 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 18 min. 25 sec. W., Kau Desert 7.5' quadrangle, [on south flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness, Hawaii Co.], Island of Hawaii, HI (Easton, 1987).
Reference section: at Puu Kapukapu, Lat. 19 deg 16 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 15 min. 35 sec. W., Kau Desert 7.5' quadrangle, [on south flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness, Hawaii Co.], Island of Hawaii, HI (Easton, 1987).
Named from Halape, cape at base of Puu Kapukapu (Easton, 1987).
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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