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Geologic Unit: Kaupo

Usage:

Kaupo Mud Flow (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kaupō (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Mouth of Kaupo Valley [Kaupo Gap, Lat. 20 deg. 38 min. 22 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 07 min. 31 sec. W., Kaupo 7.5-min quadrangle], south side of Island of Maui, HI (Macdonald and Davis, IN Avias, 1956).


AAPG geologic province:

Maui


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

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