A transform fault is a strike-slip fault that is a plate boundary and ends at other plate boundaries; a ridge–ridge transform links the ends of two offset ridge segments. A fracture zone is the continuation of a transform fault beyond the ends of the ridge segments: a linear valley or step across the ocean floor separating floor of different ages that belongs to a single plate.
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什么是 Transform fault, fracture zone?
又称: transform fault · fracture zone