Oceanic transform faults and fracture zones (FZs) represent major bathymetric features that
keep the records of past and present strike‐slip motion along conservative plate boundaries …

Plate tectonics characterize transform faults as conservative plate boundaries where the
lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed. In the Atlantic, both transform faults and their …

Abstract The Chain Fracture Zone is a 300‐km‐long transform fault that offsets the Mid‐
Atlantic Ridge. We analyzed new multibeam bathymetry, backscatter, gravity, and magnetic …

We examine the seismic structure of Cretaceous‐aged ocean crust north of the Blake Spur
fracture zone in the western North Atlantic by using a combination of multichannel seismic …

Oceanic transform faults respond to changes in the direction of relative plate motion. Studies
have shown that short‐offset transforms generally adjust with slight bends near the ridge …

Closely spaced, multi‐strand ridge transform faults (RTFs) accommodate relative motions
along fast spreading mid‐ocean ridges. However, the relations between RTFs and plate …

On mid-ocean ridge-bounded oceanic transform faults (RTFs), previous characterizations of
seismicity have utilized the assumed structural simplicity to develop scaling relations …

We present a new tectonic fabric map of the northern and central North Atlantic Ocean floor
from 10° S to 66° N based on combined Geosat and Seasat altimetry data. Short wavelength …

A high quality seismic refraction data set was collected near the intersection of the tranform
portion of the Oceanographer Fracture Zone (OFZ) with the adjacent northern limb of the Mid …

Oceanic transform faults are fundamental features of the spreading processes and record
changes in both the local-field and the far-field stresses, due to either local factors or plate …