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Geologic Unit: Hilina

Usage:

Hilina Basalt (HI*)


Subunits:

(alphabetical) all in HI*: Halape Ash Member, Kahele Ash Member, Moo Ash Member, Pohakaa Ash Member.


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Type loc: exposures 1.6 km southwest of end of Hilina Pali Road on sothern slope of Kilauea Volcano [Lat. 19 deg. 17 min. 00 sec. W., Long. 155 deg. 18 min. 45 sec. W., Kau Desert 7.5-min quadrangle] Island of Hawaii, HI (Stearns and Macdonald, 1946).


AAPG geologic province:

Hawaii*


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

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

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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