| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/24866 |
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| English | Ecuador Trench | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Trench |
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| Latitude |
1° 21' 0.2" S (-1.35004954°) |
| Longitude |
81° 12' 58.9" W (-81.2163573°) |
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| Min. Lat |
3° 10' 0" S (-3.1667°) |
| Min. Long |
81° 38' 0" W (-81.6333°) |
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| Max. Lat |
0° 28' 0" N (0.4667°) |
| Max. Long |
80° 48' 0" W (-80.8°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-22. Proposer: Ecuador Hydrographic Office (INOCAR). Year of proposal: 2008. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: Peter Lonsdale, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of discovery: 1978. History: Named from the nearby country of Ecuador. |
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Additional information (en): This feature coincides with the collision area of the Carnegie Ridge with the continental slope. It is significantly lower than the Colombian Trench to the north and the Peru Trench to the south. This is due to the different tectonic processes which have |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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