Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/63077
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishFukuyama SeamountIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Seamount(s) 
Latitude 22° 22' 37.7" N (22.37715°)  
Longitude 143° 7' 14.7" E (143.12075°)  
Min. Lat 22° 20' 50.6" N (22.3474°)  
Min. Long 143° 5' 26.3" E (143.0907°)  
Max. Lat 22° 24' 14.7" N (22.4041°)  
Max. Long 143° 8' 53.7" E (143.1482°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Additional information (en): "This feature has a conical shape. The name Fukuyama Seamount was approved by ACUF in 1987    
GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): following a proposal from Dr. Robert J. Stern to commemorate Dr. Fukuyama's work on the genesis of island-arc magma. Minimum depth (m): 1454. Maximum depth (m): 2509. Total relief (m): 1055. Dimensio    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-32. Proposer: Japanese Committee on Undersea Feature Names (JCUFN). History: 2019.,"Discoverer: Japanese survey vessel ""Shoyo"". Year of discovery: 2001. History: Named after the Japanese volcanologist and petrologist Dr. Hiroyuki Fukuyama (1947-1984). As a young volcanologist at the University of Tokyo, he worked on the genesis of island-arc magma, resulting in a major influence on the world volcanological and geological community. He and his colleagues proposed a quantitative model of the mantle wedge and possible mechanism for generating island-arc basalt magmas. He also worked on the geology of the Minami Io-To Island (formerly, Minami Iwo-Jima Island), an inaccessible volcano in the northernmost tip of the East Mariana Ridge. He died in an accident duri    
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