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 ridge axis segments. They are a …

The term fracture zone has a distinct geological meaning, but it is also used more loosely in the naming of some oceanic features. Fracture zones are much longer than wide, but may have …

Fracture zones are valleys that cut across midocean ridges, thus providing a passage for flow of cold bottom water from one ocean basin to another. From: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences …

These zones are known as transform faults and are regions of intense deformation. This deformation leaves large scars, or fracture zones, on the seafloor that stretch for hundreds to …

Sep 2, 2022 · The Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone is one of the deepest connections between the northwest and northeast Atlantic and extends approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) in …

Submarine fracture zone, long, narrow, and mountainous submarine lineation that generally separates ocean-floor ridges that differ in depth by as much as 1.5 km (0.9 mile). The largest …

The Blanco, Mendocino, Murray, and Molokai fracture zones are some of the many fracture zones (transform faults) that scar the ocean floor and offset ridges (see text). The San Andreas is …

Jan 1, 2014 · The area that is more distant from the displaced spreading ridge segment and which is seismically inactive and older is called a fracture zone (FZ). One particularity of a fracture …

Jan 1, 2022 · Regional geoseismic dip section crossing the Rio de Janeiro Fracture Zone (RJFZ) and the Rio Grande Fracture Zone (RGFZ), in which a difference in the depth of the …

Apr 17, 2023 · There are about 300 fracture zones, with an average north-south separation of 55 kilometres (34 mi): two for each degree of latitude. Physically it makes sense to group Atlantic …