Farallon (Farallón meaning
cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are common on co ...
in the
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in th ...
) may refer to:
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Farallon Capital
Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. is an American multi-strategy hedge fund headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Tom Steyer in 1986, the firm employs approximately 230 professionals in eight countries around the world.
Farall ...
, American capital management firm
*Farallon Computing, later known as
Netopia Farallon, later renamed Netopia, was a computer networking company headquartered in Berkeley, and subsequently Emeryville, California, that produced a wide variety of products including bridges, repeaters and switches, and in their later Netopia i ...
, known for PhoneNet networking and Timbuktu remote control software
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Farallon de Medinilla
Farallon de Medinilla (also known as No'os) is an uninhabited small island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is located north of Saipan, and is the smallest island in the archipelago (not counting the Zealandia Bank). Pol ...
, small island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain
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Farallon de Pajaros
Farallón de Pájaros (from Spanish ''Farallón de Pájaros'', meaning "Birds' Sea Stack", see Stack (geology)), also known as Uracus or Urracas (from Spanish ''Urracas'', meaning "Magpies"), is a small (2.3 km2) uninhabited volcanic island, ...
(Birds Rock), the northernmost island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain
*Farallon de Torres, a former name of
Zealandia Bank
Zealandia Bank, also known as Farallon de Torres or Piedras de Torres in Spanish, or Papaungan in Chamorro, consists of two rocky pinnacles about 1.5 kilometers apart, in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. One reaches a height ...
in the Northern Mariana Islands chain
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Farallon Island Light, lighthouse on Southeast Farallon Island, California
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Farallon Islands, group of islands and rocks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, USA
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Farallon Plate
The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate. It formed one of the three main plates of Panthalassa, alongside the Phoenix Plate and Izanagi Plate, which were connected by a triple junction. The Farallon Plate began subducting under the west ...
, ancient oceanic plate
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Farallon Steamship Disaster
The Farallon Steamship Disaster was the wreck of a wooden Alaska Steamship Company passenger liner, SS ''Farallon'', that hit Black Reef in Cook Inlet in the Territory of Alaska on 5 January 1910. All on board evacuated to a nearby island, where ...
, wooden steamship hit Black Reef in the Farallon Islands in 1910 and sank in Alaska
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Farallon Trench
The Farallon Trench was a subduction related tectonic formation located off the coast of the western California continental margin during the late to mid Cenozoic era, around 50 miles southeast of modern-day Monterey Bay. The time duration of subd ...
, ancient oceanic trench on the west coast of North America during the Late Cretaceous period
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Kula-Farallon Ridge
The Kula-Farallon Ridge was an ancient mid-ocean ridge that existed between the Kula and Farallon plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Jurassic period. There was a small piece of this ridge off the Pacific Northwest 43 million years ago. The r ...
, ancient mid-ocean ridge between the Kula and Farallon plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Jurassic period
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Pacific-Farallon Ridge, former mid-ocean ridge between the Pacific and Farallon plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Tertiary period
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Farallon (island) Farallon (Farallón meaning cliff in the Spanish Language) may refer to:
* Farallon Capital, American capital management firm
*Farallon Computing, later known as Netopia, known for PhoneNet networking and Timbuktu remote control software
* Farallon ...
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