| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7443 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name source |
| English | Mendocino Fracture Zone | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Razlom Mendocino | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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Fracture Zone |
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| Latitude |
39° 0' 27.6" N (39.00765621°) |
| Longitude |
147° 26' 33.8" W (-147.44271818°) |
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| Min. Lat |
36° 0' 0" N (36°) |
| Min. Long |
168° 0' 0" W (-168°) |
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| Max. Lat |
40° 19' 59.9" N (40.3333°) |
| Max. Long |
126° 0' 0" W (-126°) |
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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): Proposer: Henry W. Menard, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA. Year of proposal: 1955. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. research vessel "Horizon". Year of discovery: 1950. History: Named from the nearby locality, cape and county of Mendocino, California, USA. |
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Additional information (en): Explored/delineated by SIO's research vessel "Horizon" en route to/from 1950 Midpac Expedition. This feature became the "type locality" for the generic term "Fracture Zone" as recognized and defined by Menard in the 1950s. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 40; Longitude: -145 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -154421 |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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