Fracture zone | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/10/2019

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00:00:47 1 Structure and formation
00:01:44 2 Geologic importance
00:02:36 3 Examples of fracture zones
00:02:46 3.1 Blanco Fracture Zone
00:03:11 3.2 Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
00:03:40 3.3 Mendocino Fracture Zone
00:04:15 3.4 Romanche Fracture Zone
00:04:45 3.5 Sovanco Fracture Zone
00:05:08 4 See also



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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.
In actual usage, many transform faults aligned with fracture zones are often loosely referred to as "fracture zones" although technically, they are not.