e/Fracture zone

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has gloss	eng: A fracture zone is a linear oceanic feature--often hundreds, even thousands of kilometers long--resulting from the action of offset mid-ocean ridge axis segments. They are a consequence of plate tectonics. Lithospheric plates on either side of an active transform fault move in opposite directions; here, strike-slip activity occurs. Fracture zones extend past the transform faults, away from the ridge axis; seismically inactive (because both plate segments are moving in the same direction), they display evidence of past transform fault activity, primarily in the different ages of the crust on opposite sides of the zone.
lexicalization	eng: Fracture zones
lexicalization	eng: fracture zone
subclass of	(noun) a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features zone
has instance	e/Blanco Fracture Zone
has instance	e/Owen Fracture Zone
has instance	e/Panama Fracture Zone
has instance	e/Shackleton Fracture Zone
has instance	e/Sovanco Fracture Zone

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media:img	Blanco Fracture Zone.jpg
media:img	Fracturezone.jpg