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Geologic Unit: Kumuiliahi

Usage:

Kumuiliahi Formation (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Kumuā€˜iliahi (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1999).]


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Base of south wall of Haleakala Crater north and northeast of Kumuiliahi Peak [Lat. 20 deg. 42 min. 16 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 12 min. 09 sec. W., Kaupo 7.5-min quadrangle], in Haleakala National Park, Island of Maui, HI (Macdonald, 1978).


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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