List of fracture zones
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List of fracture zones
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Fracture zones are common features in the geology of oceanic basins. Globally most fault zones are located on divergent plate boundaries on oceanic crust. This means that they are located around mid-ocean ridges and trend perpendicular to them. The term fracture zone is used almost exclusively for features on oceanic crust; similar structures on continental crust are instead termed transform or strike slip faults. The term fracture zone has a distinct geological meaning, but it is also used more
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2023-11-20T13:52:30Z
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