fracture zone

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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Compare transform fault.

Origin of fracture zone

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby fracture zone

fractocumulus, fractostratus, fractur, fracture, fracture by contrecoup, fracture zone, fractus, frae, fraenulum, fraenum, frag
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