Pitman Fracture Zone
# Pitman Fracture Zone

Pitman Fracture Zone is an undersea fracture zone named for Dr. Walter C. Pitman II, a geophysicist and pioneer in studies of continental drift and seafloor spreading. Name proposed by Drs. Cande, Haxby and Raymond, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory [now Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory]. Name approved 3/93 (ACUF 256).

This article incorporates public domain material from "Pitman Fracture Zone". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

64°30′S 170°0′W﻿ / ﻿64.500°S 170.000°W﻿ / -64.500; -170.000

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