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Geologic Unit: Kipahulu

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Kipahulu Member of Hana Volcanics (HI*) reallocated to several unnamed lava flows of Hana Volcanics. See Hana.)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene?)*


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

Kipahulu Valley [Lat. 20 deg. 42 min. 03 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 05 min. 25 sec. W., Kipahulu 7.5-min quadrangle], southeastern end of Island of Maui, HI (Macdonald and Davis IN Avias, 1956).
[Spelled Kīpahulu (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]


AAPG geologic province:

Maui


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

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

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