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The Kane fracture zone in the Central Atlantic Ocean |
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| Authors: | GM Purdy Philip D Rabinowitz JJA Velterop |
| Institution: | Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA;Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA;Vening Meinesz Laboratorium, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Abstract: | The Kane fracture zone has been traced as a distinct topographic trough from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 24°N to the 80-m.y. B.P. isochron (magnetic anomaly 34) on either side of the ridge axis for a total of approximately 2800 km. Major changes in trend of the fracture zone occur at approximately 72 m.y. B.P. (anomaly 31 time) and approximately 53–63 m.y. B.P. (anomaly 21–25 time) which are the result of major reorientations in spreading directions in the central Atlantic Ocean. |
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