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Earthquake Zones, world seismicity map clearly showing the correlation ofthe Pacific Ring of Fire with earthquake epicenters, the Alpine-Himalayan Belt,and the coincidence of major portions of the mid-ocean ridge system withareas of seismicity

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Earthquake Zones, world seismicity map clearly showing the correlation ofthe Pacific Ring of Fire with earthquake epicenters, the Alpine-Himalayan Belt,and the coincidence of major portions of the mid-ocean ridge system withareas of seismicity. Map published in The Geographical Review, Vol. XXV, No. 1,1935, Pl. 1.

Credit

Collected Papers of Captain Nicholas Heck, NOAA Central Library

Display Date

1935

Collection

Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey

Keywords

Coast and Geodetic Survey
Geophysics Seismology