Usage:
Kiekie Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kiʻekiʻe (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
late Tertiary to Quaternary (Pliocene to Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
At Kiekie [Lat. 21 deg. 53 min. 11 sec. N., Long. 160 deg. 12 min. 46 sec. W., Niihau quadrangle] on coastal plain of Island of Niihau, HI (Stearns, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
Niihau
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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