Map of Emerald Fracture Zone as red shading to south and relationship to its north to the approximate line of the Macquarie Ridge (yellow) which is the Australian and Pacific Plate boundary. Clicking on map enables mouse over, which shows a purple dot as the location of the Macquarie Triple Junction.
The Emerald Fracture Zone (62°S 170°E / 62°S 170°E) is an undersea fracture zone running the distance from the southwest corner of the Campbell Plateau to the northern tip of Iselin Bank. The name was proposed by Dr. Steven C. Cande of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the vessel Emerald, which traversed this region in 1821, and was approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997.[1] The Emerald Basin to its north west was named from the same source.[2] Some[2] have restricted the name to the southern east west orientated transform fault zone but the north south orientated faults that define the eastern boundary of the Emerald Basin are generally included in the literature.[3]
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- ^ Meckel (2003). Tectonics of the Hjort region of the Macquarie Ridge Complex, southernmost Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary, southwest Pacific Ocean (PhD) (Thesis). pp. 1–206. Bibcode:2003PhDT.......206M.