Usage:
Kaena Limestone (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: KaŹ»ena (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Kaena Point [Lat. 21 deg. 34 min. 40 sec. N., Long. 158 deg. 16 min. 59 sec. W., Kaena 7.5-min quadrangle] Island of Oahu, HI (Lum and Stearns, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Oahu
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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