MGDS Vocabulary Terms: feature_type

<table border=1><tr><td><strong>id</strong></td><td><strong>description</strong></td><tr><td>AbyssalHill</td></tr>
<tr><td>Archipelago</td><td>chain, cluster, or group of islands</td></tr>
<tr><td>Atoll</td><td>A ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely. The coral of the atoll often sits atop the rim of an extinct seamount or volcano which has eroded or subsided partially beneath the water.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backarc</td></tr>
<tr><td>BackarcBasin</td></tr>
<tr><td>Basin</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bay</td></tr>
<tr><td>Caldera</td></tr>
<tr><td>Canyon</td></tr>
<tr><td>Channel</td><td>Channel</td></tr>
<tr><td>Continent</td></tr>
<tr><td>DrillHole</td></tr>
<tr><td>Estuary</td><td>A partly enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fault</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fjord</td></tr>
<tr><td>FocusSite:Antarctic</td><td>Antarctic Focus Site</td></tr>
<tr><td>FocusSite:Arctic</td><td>Arctic Focus Site</td></tr>
<tr><td>FocusSite:GeoPRISMS</td><td>GeoPRISMS Focus Site</td></tr>
<tr><td>FocusSite:MARGINS</td><td>Margins Focus Site</td></tr>
<tr><td>FocusSite:Ridge2000</td><td>Ridge 2000 Focus Site</td></tr>
<tr><td>Forearc</td></tr>
<tr><td>ForearcBasin</td></tr>
<tr><td>FossilRidge</td></tr>
<tr><td>FractureZone</td></tr>
<tr><td>Glacier</td></tr>
<tr><td>Gulf</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hemisphere</td></tr>
<tr><td>Iceberg</td></tr>
<tr><td>IceShelf</td></tr>
<tr><td>Island</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lagoon</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lake</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lake:Subglacial</td></tr>
<tr><td>Margin</td></tr>
<tr><td>MarineSanctuary</td><td>Marine Sanctuary</td></tr>
<tr><td>MountainRange</td></tr>
<tr><td>NotApplicable</td><td>Value will never be filled in. Cannot be known.</td></tr>
<tr><td>NotProvided</td><td>Information was not provided, but can be known</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ocean</td></tr>
<tr><td>OceanicPlateau</td></tr>
<tr><td>Outcrop</td><td>Outcrop</td></tr>
<tr><td>Peninsula</td></tr>
<tr><td>Plate</td><td>Lithospheric Plate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rampart</td><td>A wall-like ridge of rock fragments, earth, or debris</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ridge</td></tr>
<tr><td>RidgeAxis</td></tr>
<tr><td>RidgeSlope</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rift</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rise</td><td>relatively shallow area of ocean</td></tr>
<tr><td>River</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sea</td></tr>
<tr><td>Seamount</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shelf</td></tr>
<tr><td>Slope</td></tr>
<tr><td>SpreadingCenter</td><td>Tectonic feature</td></tr>
<tr><td>SpreadingCenterSegment</td></tr>
<tr><td>Strait</td></tr>
<tr><td>SubductionZone</td><td>A type of convergent plate boundary where two tectonic plates move towards one another and one slides under the other</td></tr>
<tr><td>TransformFault</td></tr>
<tr><td>TripleJunction</td></tr>
<tr><td>Vent</td></tr>
<tr><td>VentCluster</td><td>A hydrothermal complex with numerous hydrothermal vents.</td></tr>
<tr><td>VentField</td></tr>
<tr><td>VolcanicArc</td></tr>
<tr><td>VolcanicCone</td></tr>
<tr><td>Volcano</td></tr>
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