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The Pacific is also home to one of the world's most active spreading centers (the East Pacific Rise) with spreading rates of up to 145 ± 4 mm/yr between the Pacific and Nazca plates. [20] The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a slow-spreading center, while the East Pacific Rise is an example of fast spreading.
In Atwater's research on propagating rifts near the Galapagos Islands, [11] she discovered that propagating rifts were created when spreading centers along the seafloor were disturbed by tectonic movement or magma and therefore had to change direction to realign. This helped to explain the complex pattern of the seafloor.
The Los Angeles Downtown Industrial District (LADID) is manufacturing and wholesale district of downtown Los Angeles, California, that was established as a property-based business improvement district (BID) in 1998 by the Central City East Association (CCEA). The district spans 46 blocks, covers 600 properties, and is the historic home of ...
A propagating rift is a seafloor feature associated with spreading centers at mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins. [1] They are more commonly observed on faster rate spreading centers (50 mm/year or more). [2] These features are formed by the lengthening of one spreading segment at the expense of an offset neighboring spreading segment. [3]
6th street travels continuously for nine miles across central and downtown Los Angeles.From west to east, 6th street begins on the Los Angeles-Beverly Hills border, then travels through central Los Angeles (including the neighborhoods of Mid-Wilshire, Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Koreatown, Wilshire Center, and Westlake), then continues through downtown (including the Financial District ...
The Brawley Seismic Zone represents the northernmost extension of the spreading center axis associated with the East Pacific Rise which runs up the axis of the Gulf of California and is in the process of rifting the Baja California peninsula away from the mainland of Mexico, with significant subsidence taking place at southern California's Salton Sea and at Laguna Salada in Baja California.
The construction of railroad tracks connecting downtown L.A. and the Port of Los Angeles, officially founded in 1907, further reinforced downtown L.A.’s importance as a commercial center ...
The unique shape of the Gulf of Mexico, surrounded on all sides by continental crust, is the result of two different tectonic boundaries: an ocean-continent transform boundary, and a magmatic plume fueled seafloor spreading center active contemporaneously in regards to geologic time. The transform boundary caused two approximately 22 ...