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Fracture zone : ウィキペディア英語版 | Fracture zone
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. ==Structure and formation==
Mid-ocean ridges are divergent boundaries that push apart two plates. As the plates on either side of a mid-ocean ridge move, transform faults are created due to variances in plate motion. As the plates continue to move over time, these faults offset the mid-ocean ridge. These offsets cause fractures in the ocean floor that can extend for hundreds of kilometers out from a mid-ocean ridge. Fracture zones and the transform faults that form them are separate features. Transform faults are plate boundaries, meaning that on either side of the fault is a different plate. In contrast, on either side of a fracture zone, the crust belongs to the same plate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.columbia.edu/~vjd1/MOR_transforms.htm )〕
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