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fracture zone
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noun Oceanography.
a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
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Origin of fracture zone
First recorded in 1960–65
Words nearby fracture zone
fractious, fractocumulus, fractostratus, fracture, fracture by contrecoup, fracture zone, fractus, frae, fraenulum, fraenum, Fra Filippo Lippi
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