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Fracture Zone

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-011642

An elongate zone of unusually irregular topography (on the deep seafloor) that often separates basins and regions of different depths; fracture zones commonly follow (and extend beyond) offsets of the mid-ocean ridge.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-011642
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesFederal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-011642",
  "term": "Fracture Zone",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "An elongate zone of unusually irregular topography (on the deep seafloor) that often separates basins and regions of different depths; fracture zones commonly follow (and extend beyond) offsets of the mid-ocean ridge.",
  "references": [
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/fracture-zone/"
}

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