fracture zone in a sentence
Examples
- The floor is formed into a structural basin by a series of geologic faults and fracture zones.
- The northerly side is a transform boundary with the Juan de Fuca Plate, the Blanco Fracture Zone.
- The Tydeman fracture zone ( ) between Madeira and the Azores is named after " Tydeman ".
- The SWIR has ultra-slow spreading rates, a rough topography, and great number of large offset fracture zones.
- The Upper Rhine Rift is part of a fracture zone reaching from the Mediterranean Sea to Norway.
- The southern part of the Shackleton Fracture Zone is the former eastern edge of the Phoenix Plate.
- Also known as the Romanche Trench, this fracture zone separates the North Atlantic and South Atlantic Oceans.
- Many large fracture zones aligned in an east-west direction, occur in the floor of the northeastern Pacific.
- However, by observing the fracture zones, one can determine both the direction and rate of past plate motion.
- The complexity in the Tj�rnes Fracture Zone can be generally explained by the magmatic processes and plate motions.