Undersea feature terminology, recommendations of the joint IHO/IOC guiding committee (GEBCO)
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 486 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-3235
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✦ Synopsis
Foreword
The Joint I H O / I O C Guiding Committee on the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) in 1974 appointed a Sub-committee on Geographical Names and Nomenclature of Ocean Bottom Features. The purpose of this Sub-committee is to advise on names and nomenclature to be used on the G E B C O 1 : 10 M series of charts.* This Sub-committee has made an exhaustive study of the many lists of definitions of undersea feature terms presently found in or historically used by National Boards of Geographic Names, international and intergovernmental organizations, marine geoscience and hydrographic literature and widely recognized glossaries of geological terms.
The list which follows is comprised of terms that are defined as closely as possible to correspond to their usage in the cited references taken from literature of ocean science, hydrography * The members of the Sub-Committee were: G, N. Robertou.