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... 9 KB (992 words) - 18:38, 4 January 2024 |
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... 7 KB (850 words) - 19:23, 3 September 2023 |
Clarion Fracture Zone may refer to: Clarion Fracture Zone (band), a jazz ensemble from Australia Clarion Fracture Zone (geology), a geological feature... 224 bytes (60 words) - 22:12, 29 October 2023 |
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... 2 KB (296 words) - 10:25, 24 February 2024 |
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... 1 KB (133 words) - 18:33, 26 April 2021 |
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... 565 bytes (90 words) - 01:42, 4 April 2022 |
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... 610 bytes (86 words) - 04:01, 26 November 2023 |
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... 650 bytes (93 words) - 14:40, 2 February 2022 |
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... 4 KB (442 words) - 01:24, 8 June 2021 |
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... 10 KB (1,118 words) - 12:36, 8 May 2023 |
Geological deformation of Iceland (redirect from Tjörnes Fracture Zone) 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... 42 KB (4,810 words) - 07:51, 10 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (607 words) - 19:43, 30 March 2024 |
Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault (redirect from Azores-Gibraltar Fracture Zone) Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault (AGFZ), also called a fault zone and a fracture zone, is a major seismic zone in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and... 9 KB (836 words) - 08:16, 11 September 2023 |
North Atlantic Deep Water (redirect from Gibbs Fracture Zone Water) 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... 14 KB (1,753 words) - 05:33, 17 March 2024 |
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... 564 bytes (76 words) - 21:39, 1 December 2023 |
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... 5 KB (515 words) - 03:26, 13 March 2024 |
Scotia Plate (section Shackleton Fracture Zone) the North Scotia Ridge, the South Scotia Ridge, and the Shackleton Fracture Zone. The Scotia Plate is made of oceanic crust and continental fragments... 23 KB (2,882 words) - 11:58, 16 December 2023 |
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... 16 KB (1,377 words) - 21:05, 28 August 2023 |
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... 1 KB (109 words) - 21:02, 19 February 2024 |
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... 501 bytes (48 words) - 19:35, 11 July 2021 |
Kosminskaya Fracture Zone (61°32′S 30°20′W / 61.533°S 30.333°W / -61.533; -30.333) is an undersea fracture zone named for Professor Irina Kosminskaya... 811 bytes (96 words) - 15:57, 1 December 2023 |