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Changes in Direction of Sea Floor Spreading

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Magnetic anomalies and fracture zones make distinctive patterns when the direction of sea floor spreading changes as has occurred repeatedly in the north-eastern Pacific. The mode of deformation is such that the spreading centres between transform faults become uniformly reoriented essentially perpendicular to the faults.

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  1. Institute of Marine Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

    H. W. MENARD

  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La jolla, California

    TANYA ATWATER

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MENARD, H., ATWATER, T. Changes in Direction of Sea Floor Spreading. Nature 219, 463–467 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219463a0

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