Geological Oceanography Essay

Document Type:Thesis

Subject Area:Geology

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During this time, two main group models of the analog models were developed. These includes the mechanical models that includes non-accumulating lithosphere and the thermochemical models with accumulating and cooling plates. In addition to thermochemical and mechanical models, scientists also came up with three more models to shine light on the same. The three models were all numerical models and include, model of stress and displacement distribution around the transforms, the model of nucleation and formation of drift-transform fault patterns and the model of transform fault heated structure and earth surface rock growth. In this paper would seek to explore the discussions of transform faults (Takeuchi et al, 2012). The two models explained above are critical for understanding the dynamics of modern extraneous patterns as well as conservative plate boundaries (transform faults) because the traditional data only depicts limited snapshots emancipating from many of years of separation.

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Several reviews and systematics by scientists have also tried to explain the formation of mid-ocean ridges. Macdonald and Gudmundsson, explained that mid-ocean ridges are divided into three groups, the intermediate and fast and slow-spreading each having a unique morphological features. The slow-spreading ridges contain deep valleys and have different relief which ranges from 400m to 2500m in addition to rough rift mountain topography that is associated with the growth rate. Fast-developing (fast-spreading) ridges have minimal centric heights, they may have small linear depressions at the top and slanting fault mountain inclination associated with overlapping (spreading) rate. These researchers examined the accumulation when the diverging rate was varying along the fault. O’Bryan’s experiment involved the combination of ‘Oldenburg and Brune’s wax model’ and the ‘Cox’s tennis ball experiment’.

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