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Geologic Unit: Keanakakoi

Usage:

Keanakakoi Tephra Member of Puna Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Keanakākoʻi (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]


Geologic age:

late Quaternary (late Holocene)*


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

Surface in vicinity of Keanakakoi Crater [Lat. 19 deg. 24 min. 11 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 16 min. 01 sec. W., Kilauea Crater 7.5-min quadrangle, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Island of Hawaii, HI] (Davis and Macdonald, IN Avias, 1956).
[Spelling of crater changed to Keanakākoʻi (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]


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