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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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    : 3  The Heirtzler Fracture Zone was approved by the Advisory Committee on Undersea Features in 1993. The Mendocino Fracture Zone extends for over 4,000 km...
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    plate configuration results in a transform boundary along the Mendocino Fracture Zone, and a divergent boundary at the Gorda Ridge. This area is tectonically...
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  • Mendocino Triple Junction, a complex system of three major faults (including the Cascadia subduction zone, San Andreas Fault, and Mendocino Fracture Zone)...
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    Cape Mendocino in California, it intersects the San Andreas Fault and the Mendocino Fracture Zone at the Mendocino Triple Junction. Subduction zones experience...
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    fracture zones shown in the list were created by ridge segments that no longer exist. Blanco Fracture Zone Surveyor Fracture Zone Mendocino Fracture Zone...
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  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle Mendocino Fracture Zone, a seismic feature off the coast of Cape Mendocino, California Mendocino Triple Junction, a point where three...
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    The Blanco Fracture Zone or Blanco Transform Fault Zone (BTFZ) is a right lateral transform fault zone, which runs northwest off the coast of Oregon in...
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    The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) (/ˈmædrɪd/), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate...
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    Fracture Zone Clarton Fracture Zone Clipperton Fracture Zone Eltanin Fault System Macquarie Fault Zone Mendocino Fracture Zone Murray Fracture Zone Molucca...
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  • needed] It is not intended to list every notable fault, but only major fault zones.[clarification needed] Lists of earthquakes Tectonics Yeats, R. (2012),...
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    Peak. Lassen Peak last erupted in 1914–1917. Blanco Fracture Zone Cascadia subduction zone Mendocino Triple Junction "National Earthquake Information Center...
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  • sea floor; his discovery of large shifts in the patterns in the Mendocino Fracture Zone was a major impetus behind the theory of plate tectonics, which...
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    and the North American Plate, which meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction. The Mendocino Fracture Zone marks the transform boundary between the Gorda and...
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  • Cape Mendocino, the Mendocino Triple Junction is an area of active seismicity where three tectonic plates come together. The Mendocino Fracture Zone (also...
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    Cape Mendocino, the Mendocino Triple Junction is an area of active seismicity where three tectonic plates come together. The Mendocino Fracture Zone (also...
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  • culminated with the arrival of the Murray and Mendocino Fracture Zones at the North American subduction zone in the Oligocene. This initiated strike-slip...
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  • concept was tested using seismic refraction profiles from the Mendocino Fracture Zone. Hess found that the slow compressional waves propagated perpendicular...
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    plates Mendocino Fracture Zone – A fracture zone and transform boundary off the coast of Cape Mendocino in far northern California Mocha Fracture Zone – A...
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  • a mountain range in Bolívar state, Venezuela Lema Fracture Zone, next to the Vema Fracture Zone in the Atlantic Ocean Chris Lema (born 1995), an American...
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  • Cape Mendocino, the Mendocino Triple Junction is an area of active seismicity where three tectonic plates come together. The Mendocino Fracture Zone (also...
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    structures or faults. Fracture zones represent the previously active transform-fault lines, which have since passed the active transform zone and are being pushed...
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  • the Mendocino Triple Junction where the north-northwest trending SAF meets the east trending Mendocino Fracture Zone and the Cascadia subduction zone. It...
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  • demise: the western Pacific guyot heights trace the trans-Pacific Mendocino fracture zone". Geomorphology. 18 (3–4): 229. Bibcode:1997Geomo..18..223C. doi:10...
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  • in the north at the Mendocino Triple Junction where the north-northwest trending SAF meets the east trending Mendocino Fracture Zone. It terminates in the...
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  • in the north at the Mendocino Triple Junction where the north-northwest trending SAF meets the east trending Mendocino Fracture Zone. It terminates in the...
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  • American, Nazca and Antarctic tectonic plates meet Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone – Fracture zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mount Fuji – Volcano in Yamanashi...
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    of North America is another unstable triple junction offshore of Cape Mendocino. To the south, the San Andreas Fault, a strike-slip fault and transform...
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  • Farallon Trench (category Subduction zones)
    Murray fracture zones at that time, approached the trench and the young, hot, buoyant lithosphere appears to have clogged part of the subduction zone, resulting...
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    sculpture-like quality. Bowling Ball Beach – Part of Schooner Gluch State Beach in Mendocino County, CaliforniaPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback...
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