A fracture zone is a linear feature on the ocean floor—often hundreds, even thousands of kilometers long—resulting from the action of offset mid-ocean...

Authority (ISA). It includes the Clarion fracture zone and the Clipperton fracture zone, geological submarine fracture zones. Clarion and Clipperton are two of...

zone Pioneer fracture zone Murray fracture zone Molokai fracture zone Sovanco fracture zone Sedna fracture zone Sila fracture zone Aja fracture zone Cobb...

The Mendocino fracture zone is a fracture zone and transform boundary over 4000 km (2500 miles) long, starting off the coast of Cape Mendocino in far northern...

The Shackleton fracture zone (SFZ) is an undersea fracture zone, oceanic ridge and fault located in the Drake Passage, at the separation between the Scotia...

The Easter fracture zone is an oceanic fracture zone associated with the transform fault extending from the Tuamotu archipelago in the west to the Peru–Chile...

52.50°N 31.75°W / 52.50; -31.75 Charlie–Gibbs fracture zone is a system of two parallel fracture zones. It is the most prominent interruption of the Mid-Atlantic...

The Diamantina fracture zone (DFZ, Diamantina zone) is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor, consisting of a range of ridges and trenches...

The Kane fracture zone is a medium-offset transform fault zone located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). It lies just to the north of the Kane Megamullion...

Clarion Fracture Zone may refer to: Clarion Fracture Zone (band), a jazz ensemble from Australia Clarion fracture zone (geology), a geological feature...

42°19′59″W / 10.726°N 42.333°W / 10.726; -42.333 The Vema fracture zone is a fracture zone in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. It offsets the Mid-Atlantic...

The Owen fracture zone (OFZ), though misnamed as a fracture zone, is a transform fault in the northwest Indian Ocean that separates the Arabian and African...

The Hero fracture zone (61°30′S 66°0′W / 61.500°S 66.000°W / -61.500; -66.000) is an undersea fracture zone in the Antarctic. Its name was approved...

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....

Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics...

The Antipodes fracture zone (60°S 151°W / 60°S 151°W / -60; -151) is an undersea fracture zone named in association with Antipodes Island. The name...

spreading direction.: 50  The transform-fault zones are also known as fracture zones. These fracture zones allow large volumes of lava to be erupted. The...

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Pitman fracture zone is an undersea fracture zone named for Dr. Walter C. Pitman III, a geophysicist and pioneer in studies of continental drift and seafloor...

to 20°W. The trench has been formed by the actions of the Romanche Fracture Zone, a portion of which is an active transform boundary offsetting sections...

The Emerald fracture zone (62°S 170°E / 62°S 170°E / -62; 170) is an undersea fracture zone running the distance from the southwest corner of the Campbell...

The Sovanco fracture zone is a right lateral-moving transform fault and associated fracture zone located offshore of Vancouver Island in Canada. It runs...

The Panama fracture zone is a major, active right lateral-moving transform fault and associated inactive fracture zone which forms part of the tectonic...

The Prince Edward fracture zone (PEFZ) is one of the fracture zones located on the Southwest Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean between Africa and Antarctica...

Þrándarjökull Thrihnukagigur Þingvellir canyon (Mid Atlantic Ridge) Tjörnes Fracture Zone Tjörnes Peninsula (Sedimentary rock with fossils) Torfajökull Torfajökull...

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...

The Mocha fracture zone (MFZ) is a fracture zone on the Nazca plate off the coast of Mocha Island, Chile. The Mocha fracture zone trends from the Valdivia...

The Hjort fracture zone (62°S 163°E / 62°S 163°E / -62; 163) is an undersea fracture zone in Antarctica. The name was approved by the Advisory Committee...

and flows to the western North Atlantic through the Charlie–Gibbs fracture zone, entraining with LSW. This water is less dense than DSOW and lays above...

The Fifteen-Twenty fracture zone (or FTFZ, Cabo Verde fracture zone, 15°20' fracture zone), is a fracture zone located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR)...