Changes in Direction of Sea Floor Spreading
Abstract
Magnetic anomalies and fracture zones make distinctive patterns when the direction of sea floor spreading changes as has occurred repeatedly in the north-eastern Pacific. The mode of deformation is such that the spreading centres between transform faults become uniformly reoriented essentially perpendicular to the faults.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 1968
- DOI:
- 10.1038/219463a0
- Bibcode:
- 1968Natur.219..463M