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Geologic Unit: Ninole

Usage:

Ninole Basalt (HI*)
[Hawaiian spelling: Nīnole (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000).]


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Type section: on walls of Ninole Valley at Puu Enohe [Lat. 19 deg. 10 min. 40 sec. N., Long. 155 deg. 32 min. 22 sec. W., Punaluu 7.5-min quadrangle, slope of Mauna Loa Volcano, Island of Hawaii, HI] (Stearns and Clark, 1930).


AAPG geologic province:

Hawaii


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

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