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    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...
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    Authority (ISA). It includes the Clarion Fracture Zone and the Clipperton Fracture Zone, geological submarine fracture zones. Clarion and Clipperton are two of...
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    Zone Pioneer Fracture Zone Murray Fracture Zone Molokai Fracture Zone Sovanco Fracture Zone Sedna Fracture Zone Sila Fracture Zone Aja Fracture Zone Cobb...
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    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...
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    35°S 104°E / 35°S 104°E / -35; 104 The Diamantina Fracture Zone (DFZ) is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor, consisting of a range...
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  • Clarion Fracture Zone may refer to: Clarion Fracture Zone (band), a jazz ensemble from Australia Clarion Fracture Zone (geology), a geological feature...
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    spreading direction.: 50  The transform-fault zones are also known as fracture zones. These fracture zones allow large volumes of lava to be erupted. On...
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    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...
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    The Owen Fracture Zone (OFZ), though misnamed a fracture zone, is a transform fault in the northwest Indian Ocean that separates the Arabian and African...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Pitman Fracture Zone is an undersea fracture zone named for Dr. Walter C. Pitman II, a geophysicist and pioneer in studies of continental drift and seafloor...
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    because they are under low pressure. This upper section is known as the fracture zone and moves mostly as a single unit over the plastic-flowing lower section...
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    treatment. For several reasons, a Jones fracture may not unite. The diaphyseal bone (zone II), where the fracture occurs, is an area of potentially poor...
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    curve a large zone of plastic flow. Ceramics have a lower fracture toughness but show an exceptional improvement in the stress fracture that is attributed...
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  • 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...
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  • Þrándarjökull Thrihnukagigur Þingvellir canyon (Mid Atlantic Ridge) Tjörnes Fracture Zone Tjörnes Peninsula (Sedimentary rock with fossils) Torfajökull Torfajökull...
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    Fifteen-Twenty or 15°20' Fracture Zone (FTFZ), also known as the Cabo Verde Fracture Zone,[citation needed] is a fracture zone located on the Mid-Atlantic...
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  • Vinogradov Fracture Zone (60°56′S 29°12′W / 60.933°S 29.200°W / -60.933; -29.200) is an Antarctic undersea fracture zone named for Alexandr Vinogradov...
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  • The Heirtzler Fracture Zone (63°30′S 162°30′E / 63.500°S 162.500°E / -63.500; 162.500) is an undersea fracture zone located south of New Zealand near...
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    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...
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  • The Chile Fracture Zone (CFZ) is a major strike slip fault and fracture zone in the Chile Rise. The Chile Fracture Zone runs in an eastwest direction...
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    Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone East Pacific Rise Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone Project FAMOUS Researcher Ridge USGS (5 May 1999)...
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  • Fracture Zone (MFZ) is a fracture zone on the Nazca Plate off the coast of Mocha Island, Chile. Mocha Fracture Zone trends from the Valdivia Fracture...
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    the North Scotia Ridge, the South Scotia Ridge, and the Shackleton Fracture Zone. The Scotia Plate is made of oceanic crust and continental fragments...
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    delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans by the Shackleton Fracture Zone is the title of a scientific theory developed in Chile and other countries...
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    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...
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