Earth:Clipperton Rock

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Short description: Small outcropping on Clipperton Island
Clipperton Rock
Highest point
Elevation29 m (95 ft)
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 10°17′32″N 109°12′27″W / 10.2922°N 109.2075°W / 10.2922; -109.2075 
Geography
CountryFrance

Clipperton Rock is the highest point on Clipperton Island at 29 metres above sea level.

Geography

Clipperton Rock is located in the southeast of Clipperton Island.[1] It constitutes the only emerged point of a chain of submarine mountains and volcanoes known as the East Pacific Rise.[2] It is composed of trachyandesite[3][4] and constitutes the last fragment of the neck of the volcano before becoming dormant.[5][6]

Elongated in shape and approximately a hundred meters in length the rock has many cavities large enough to walk though.[1] It rises to an altitude of 29 meters,[7] almost entirely surrounded by the waters of the lagoon it is only connected to the rest of the atoll by a narrow strip of land to the east.[1] A geodetic marker from the IGN has been affixed to the rock.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sachet, Marie-Hélène (1962). "Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island" (in en). Atoll Research Bulletin 86: 1–115. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.86.1. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5030. 
  2. ↑ Menard, H. W.; Fisher, Robert L. (1958). "Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Northeastern Equatorial Pacific" (in en). The Journal of Geology 66 (3): 239–253. doi:10.1086/626502. ISSN 0022-1376. Bibcode: 1958JG.....66..239M. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/626502. 
  3. ↑ Fairbridge, Rhodes W. (1975), "Clipperton island" (in en), World Regional Geology, Encyclopedia of Earth Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers): pp. 244–245, doi:10.1007/3-540-31081-1_35, ISBN 978-0-470-25145-4, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/3-540-31081-1_35, retrieved 2024-09-21 
  4. ↑ Glynn, Peter W. (2017), Glynn, Peter W.; Manzello, Derek P.; Enochs, Ian C., eds., "History of Eastern Pacific Coral Reef Research", Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Coral Reefs of the World (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) 8: pp. 1–37, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_1, ISBN 978-94-017-7498-7, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_1, retrieved 2024-09-21 
  5. ↑ Teall, J. J. H. (1898). "A Phosphatized Trachyte from Clipperton Atoll (Northern Pacific)" (in en). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 54 (1–4): 230–233. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.20. ISSN 0370-291X. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.20. 
  6. ↑ Darwin, Charles (1851) (in en). Geological Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South America. London, England, United Kingdom: Smith, Elder, And Company. doi:10.1525/9780520327337. ISBN 978-0-520-32733-7. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520327337/html. 
  7. ↑ Stager, Kenneth E. (1964). "The Birds of Clipperton Island, Eastern Pacific". The Condor 66 (5): 357–371. doi:10.2307/1365428. ISSN 1938-5129. https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/66/5/357-371/5229076. 
  8. ↑ Tchékémian, Anthony; Leleu, Patrick (2024). "La Passion-Clipperton : Traces anthropiques sur un atoll français inhabité, dans l'océan Pacifique" (in fr). Archéologie, société et environnement 4 (1): 1–45. doi:10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1155. https://www.openscience.fr/La-Passion-Clipperton-Traces-anthropiques-sur-un-atoll-francais-inhabite-dans-l. 



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