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Geologic Unit: Kalaupapa

Usage:

Kalaupapa Volcanics (HI*)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Kalaupapa Peninsula [Lat. 21 deg. 11 min. 33 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 59 min. 10 sec. W., Kaunakakai quadrangle] Island of Molokai, HI (Macdonald and Davis, IN Avias, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Molokai


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

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

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