JOIDES Basin
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JOIDES Basin (
) is a northeast trending undersea basin of the central Ross continental shelf named for the "Joint Oceanographic Institutes Deep Earth Sampling." Name approved 6/88 (ACUF 228).This article incorporates text from JOIDES Basin, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.