fracture zone

collocation in English

meaningsoffractureandzone

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fracture
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfræk.tʃər/us
/ˈfræk.tʃɚ/
a break or crack in something hard, especially ...
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zone
noun[C]
uk
/zəʊn/us
/zoʊn/
an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for ...
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(Definition offractureandzonefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thefracturezoneof the fault mainly consists of fault gouge and breccia.
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During impact a large electrical discharge was observed followed by melting of the ice then re-freezing of the liquid water as measured beneath the crater in thefracturezone.
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Local ductility is designated as the localized elongation at the eventualfracturezone.
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These planes or weakened areas allow the intrusion of a thin sheet-like body of magma paralleling the existing bedding planes, concordantfracturezone, or foliations.
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This upper section is known as the "fracturezone"; it mostly moves as a single unit over the plastically flowing lower section.
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When a glacier moves through irregular terrain, cracks called crevasses develop in thefracturezone.
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Above a certain pressure thefracturezonecan be completely eliminated.
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The tunnel proved an arduous task as a largefracturezonein the rock was encountered which took seven months to repair.
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The rift may be intersected by a shear orfracturezone, which act as locked zones and prevent further propagation.
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They encountered an excellent gas-filledfracturezoneat approximately 7600ft m.
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The structure that makes a resurgent dome possible is afracturezonemade up of ring faults surrounded by concentric normal faults around the outside of the rings.
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The surface finish will be lower in the so-calledfracturezone, i.e. where the material is irregularly stripped away from the matching surface, at the end of the shearing operation.
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It is a dynamic compression plate with limited contact to the underlying bone which supposedly minimizes disruption in periosteal capillary network and thus in thefracturezone.
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The profound significance is that life could develop to higher level and thrive in a warm liquid water environment slightly below the surface ice in the meteorite fracture zones.
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In actual usage, many transform faults aligned with fracture zones are often loosely referred to as fracture zones although technically, they are not.
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There are about 300 fracture zones, with an average north-south separation of 55km mi: two for each degree of latitude.
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The so-called abyssal peridotites dredged from the seafloor near fracture zones (where oceanic lithosphere may be exposed at the surface) are typically lherzolites, not harzburgites.
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Because of the deformation, fracture zones have been reactivated.
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