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.
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