Usage:
Lanai Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Lānaʻi (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Principal reference locality: Maunalei Gulch [Lat. 20 deg. 54 min. 15 sec. N., Long. 156 deg. 53 min. 18 sec. W., Lanai quadrangle] on northeast side of Island of Lanai, HI (Langenheim and Clague, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Lanai
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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