Gulf of México

the Gulf of México

1. Alternative form of Gulf of Mexico.
   • 1900, “Geographical Sketch”, in the Bureau of the American Republics, compiler, Mexico. A Geographical Sketch, with Special Reference to Economic Conditions and Prospects of Future Development., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 5:

     The country called México, or New Spain, by the historians of the last century was situated between 9° and 40° north latitude, and 80° and 50° west longitude. […] The boundary with the United States, as fixed by the treaties of February 2, 1848, and December 30, 1853, begins at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Gulf of México and follows the river for 1,136 miles beyond El Paso, Tex., to the point where it meets parallel 31° 47′ latitude north, thence along said parallel for a distance of 100 miles; […]

   • 1969, Emile A. Pessagno, Jr., “Correlation between the Upper Cretaceous Tethyan and Boreal faunal provinces”, in Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the Western Gulf Coast Area of México, Texas, and Arkansas (Memoir 111), Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America, →ISBN, pages 19–20:

     Such a difference in the planktonic-foraminiferal assemblage at 40° north latitude between eastern and western North America is probably due to: […] (2) the separation of the Western Interior–Gulf of México water mass from that of the west coast by the Nevadian land mass; […]

   • 2000, Desmond C. Cook, Ann C. Van Orden, Javier Reyes, Sei J. Oh, Rama Balasubramanian, Juan J. Carpio, Herbert E. Townsend, “Atmospheric Corrosion in Marine Environments along the Gulf of México”, in Sheldon W. Dean, Guillermo Hernandez-Duque Delgadillo, James B. Bushman, editors, Marine Corrosion in Tropical Environments (Special Technical Publication 1399), West Conshohocken, Pa.: ASTM, →ISBN, page 76:

     México is located between the latitudes 15° and 30° N and the longitudes 86° and 116°. Two thirds of the country is located in the tropics, including 90% of the coastal regions on the Gulf of México.

   • 2007, Susana A. Alaniz-Álvarez, Ángel Francisco Nieto-Samaniego, “The Taxco–San Miguel de Allende fault system and the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: Two tectonic boundaries in central México active during the Cenozoic”, in Susana A. Alaniz-Álvarez, Ángel F. Nieto-Samaniego, editors, Geology of México: Celebrating the Centenary of the Geological Society of México (Special Paper 422), Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 301, columns 1–2:

     Since Humboldt’s time, it has been recognized that in central México a volcanic belt, including many active volcanoes, crosses México from Tepic on the Pacific Coast to Veracruz on the Gulf of México.