Usage:
Kii Point Limestone (HI)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kiʻi Point (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Kii Point, Ulupau peninsula [Lat. 21 deg. 27 min. 27 sec. N., Long. 157 deg. 43 min. 34 sec. W., Makapu 7.5-min quadrangle] Island of Oahu, HI (Wentworth and Hoffmeister, 1939)
AAPG geologic province:
Oahu
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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