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Some fracture zones such as Chile and Valdivia make up large sections of the Nazca-Antarctic plate boundary. Map of the Chile Rise and its fracture zones in Nazca and the Antarctic plates Active Pacific Ocean fracture zones are perpendicular to the mid-ocean ridges (black lines) in orange shaded region. Since the map was prepared ages not shown ...
The data is incomplete as official recognition of feature names is a drawn out process. Unofficial names have been added from academic literature and this remains a work in progress particularly for Indian Ocean and Eastern Pacific where a number of officially unnamed fracture zones exist and mapping is still ongoing.
Blanco fracture zone map Bathymetry map of the North Atlantic Ocean showing the full extent of the Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone (horizontal black lines in the center of the image) Magnetostratigraphy of the East Pacific Rise near the Heirtzler fracture zone showing ages of sea floor spreading in millions of years (Ma) The Romanche fracture zone with red arrows indicating directions of movements ...
Separating the African (or Nubian–Somali plates) and Antarctic plates, the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) stretches 7,700 km (4,800 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. With an average spreading rate of 14–15 millimetres per year (0.55–0.59 in/year), the SWIR is one of the slowest-spreading mid-ocean ridges on Earth.
Bouvet transform, known as the Bouvet fracture zone, [2] linked it to the Southwest Indian Ridge on the eastern side, [7] and this is known to be the oldest part of the current triple junction at 8 Ma. [8] Currently the Conrad transform and Bouvet transform are no longer connected to each other.
Slip along the Owen fracture zone is occurring at 2 mm (0.079 in)/yr, the slowest rate on Earth, which means the Arabian plate moves northward faster than the Indian plate (4 vs. 2 mm/yr). [2] In some usages, the name Owen Transform Fault is used to denote the short section between the end of the Aden-Sheba ridge and the Carlsberg Ridge. [3]
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In the bay is the archipelago known as the Biak Islands (also called the Schouten Islands, or Geelvink Islands), comprising Biak, the Padaido Islands, Supiori and Numfor (Numfoor). Further south in the bay is the 140 kilometer long island of Yapen (Japen). Smaller islands in the bay are Mios Num (Pulau Num), Rumberpon, Waar (or Meoswaar), Roon ...