Clipperton Rock

Clipperton Rock is located in the southeast of Clipperton Island.{{Cite journal |last=Sachet |first=Marie-Hélène |date=1962 |title=Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island |url=https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5030 |journal=Atoll Research Bulletin |language=en |volume=86 |pages=1–115 |doi=10.5479/si.00775630.86.1|hdl=10088/5030 |url-access=subscription }} It constitutes the only emerged point of a chain of submarine mountains and volcanoes known as the East Pacific Rise.{{Cite journal |last1=Menard |first1=H. W. |last2=Fisher |first2=Robert L. |date=1958 |title=Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Northeastern Equatorial Pacific |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/626502 |journal=The Journal of Geology |language=en |volume=66 |issue=3 |pages=239–253 |doi=10.1086/626502 |bibcode=1958JG.....66..239M |issn=0022-1376|url-access=subscription }} It is composed of trachyandesite{{Citation |last=Fairbridge |first=Rhodes W. |title=Clipperton island |date=1975 |work=World Regional Geology |series=Encyclopedia of Earth Science |pages=244–245 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/3-540-31081-1_35 |access-date=2024-09-21 |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |language=en |doi=10.1007/3-540-31081-1_35 |isbn=978-0-470-25145-4|url-access=subscription }}{{Citation |last=Glynn |first=Peter W. |title=History of Eastern Pacific Coral Reef Research |date=2017 |work=Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific |series=Coral Reefs of the World |volume=8 |pages=1–37 |editor-last=Glynn |editor-first=Peter W. |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_1 |access-date=2024-09-21 |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Netherlands |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-7499-4_1 |isbn=978-94-017-7498-7 |editor2-last=Manzello |editor2-first=Derek P. |editor3-last=Enochs |editor3-first=Ian C.|url-access=subscription }} and constitutes the last fragment of the neck of the volcano before becoming dormant.{{Cite journal |last=Teall |first=J. J. H. |date=1898 |title=A Phosphatized Trachyte from Clipperton Atoll (Northern Pacific) |url=https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.20 |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London |language=en |volume=54 |issue=1–4 |pages=230–233 |doi=10.1144/GSL.JGS.1898.054.01-04.20 |issn=0370-291X}}{{Cite book |last=Darwin |first=Charles |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520327337/html |title=Geological Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South America |date=1851 |publisher=Smith, Elder, And Company |isbn=978-0-520-32733-7 |location=London, England, United Kingdom |language=en |doi=10.1525/9780520327337}}

Elongated in shape and approximately a hundred meters in length the rock has many cavities large enough to walk though. It rises to an altitude of 29 meters,{{Cite journal |last=Stager |first=Kenneth E. |date=1964 |title=The Birds of Clipperton Island, Eastern Pacific |url=https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/66/5/357-371/5229076 |journal=The Condor |volume=66 |issue=5 |pages=357–371 |doi=10.2307/1365428 |jstor=1365428 |issn=1938-5129}} 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. A geodetic marker from the IGN has been affixed to the rock.{{Cite journal |last1=Tchékémian |first1=Anthony |last2=Leleu |first2=Patrick |date=2024 |title=La Passion-Clipperton : Traces anthropiques sur un atoll français inhabité, dans l'océan Pacifique |trans-title=La Passion-Clipperton: Anthropogenic traces on an uninhabited French atoll, in the Pacific Ocean |url=https://www.openscience.fr/La-Passion-Clipperton-Traces-anthropiques-sur-un-atoll-francais-inhabite-dans-l |journal=Archéologie, société et environnement |language=fr |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=1–45 |doi=10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1155}}

Category:Clipperton Island

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