Fracture zones are common features in the geology of oceanic basins. Globally most fault zones are located on divergent plate boundaries on oceanic crust...

of Nevada, where it accompanies the geological trough that forms Black Rock Desert. Blanco Fracture Zone List of fracture zones "Mendocino Fracture Zone"...

Diamantina Fracture Zone (DFZ) is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor, consisting of a range of ridges and trenches. It lies to the south of the...

part of the Antarctic—Nazca Plate boundary. It was discovered by HMS Challenger List of fracture zones General citations for named fracture zones are at...

The Hunter Fracture Zone is a sinistral (left-lateral) transform faulting fracture zone, that to its south is part of a triple junction with the New Hebrides...

semibrittle shear zones), ductile–brittle to ductile shear zones. In brittle shear zones, the deformation is concentrated in a narrow fracture surface separating...

In materials science, fracture toughness is the critical stress intensity factor of a sharp crack where propagation of the crack suddenly becomes rapid...

Balleny Fracture Zone (62°S 156°E / 62°S 156°E / -62; 156) is a fracture zone in the Southern Ocean that extends south towards the Balleny Islands....

known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock...

to list every notable fault, but only major fault zones.[clarification needed] Lists of earthquakes Tectonics Yeats, R. (2012), Active Faults of the...

on the fringe of mirror zones and represent the zone where the joint surface slightly roughens. Hackle zones predominate after mist zones, where the joint...

They are connected by fracture zones, forming the volcanic zones. The Kolbeinsey Ridge assumes 100% of the divergence rate of 1.834 cm/year (0.722 in/year)...

plate interactions General citations for named fracture zones are at page Wikipedia:Map data/Fracture zone and specific citations are in interactive detail...

land Fracture zone – A junction between oceanic crustal regions of different ages on the same plate left by a transform fault List of fracture zones – List...

Mandibular fracture, also known as fracture of the jaw, is a break through the mandibular bone. In about 60% of cases the break occurs in two places. It...

boundary along one of the fracture zones. However, the fracture zone that was reactivated by the 1989 event was not the same fracture zone which ruptured...

fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements...

further supports the theory of plate tectonics. Active transform faults are between two tectonic structures or faults. Fracture zones represent the previously...

to the fault zone). Within a large fault system, multiple fault cores and damage zones can be found. Younger fault cores and damage zones can overlap the...

Aviator's fracture Bankart's fracture Barton's fracture Bennett's fracture Boxer's fracture Bumper fracture Burst fracture Bosworth fracture Chance fracture Chopart's...

Clarion Fracture Zone is an Australian contemporary jazz ensemble. Their debut album Blue Shift (1990), released through ABC Records, won the 1991 ARIA...

boundaries. Subduction zones occur where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate and is pushed underneath it. Subduction zones are marked by oceanic...

environmental impact of fracking is related to land use and water consumption, air emissions, including methane emissions, brine and fracturing fluid leakage...

tectonics, where the plates of the Earth's crust slide along fracture zones, is an example of this. Shearing in soil mechanics is measured with a triaxial...

delineate where and whether a rift zone is to be defined. The accumulated lava of repeated eruptions from rift zones along with the endogenous growth created...

Also the South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) is another fracture zone, which connects the EVZ and WVZ. Both fracture zones include their own volcanic systems...

subduction zones comprise roughly 40% of all subduction zone margins on the planet. The ocean-ocean plate relationship can lead to subduction zones between...

Fracture of biological materials may occur in biological tissues making up the musculoskeletal system, commonly called orthopedic tissues: bone, cartilage...

sections of transform faulting. Fracture zones within the tectonic plates are created as continuations of these transform faults. Two of the fracture zones that...

Helgafell. The South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) is a fracture zone, which connects the East and West Volcanic Zones. It contains its own volcanic systems...