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    The Gorda Ridge (41°36'19.6"N 127°22'03.1"W), aka Gorda Ridges tectonic spreading center, is located roughly 200 kilometres (120 mi) off the northern coast...
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    and Cocos plates Gorda Ridge – Tectonic spreading center off the northern coast of California and southern Oregon Juan de Fuca Ridge – Divergent plate...
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    forming the Gorda Ridge. This ridge provides morphological evidence of differing spreading rates, with the northern portion of the ridge being narrow...
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    subduction zone to the southern end of the Gorda Ridge. It continues on west of its junction with the Gorda Ridge, as an inactive remnant section which extends...
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    boundaries on oceanic crust. This means that they are located around mid-ocean ridges and trend perpendicular to them. The term fracture zone is used almost exclusively...
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    Northwest of the United States, extending from the Gorda Ridge in the south to the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the north. The Blanco Transform Fault Zone is an...
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    boundary along the Mendocino Fracture Zone, and a divergent boundary at the Gorda Ridge. This area is tectonically active historically and today. The Cascadia...
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    Guinea The Gorda Ridge off the northwest coast of North America The Explorer Ridge off the northwest coast of North America The Juan de Fuca Ridge off the...
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    Pacific Northwest Gorda Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge Sovanco Fracture Zone Volcanism in Canada Wikimedia Commons has media related to Explorer Ridge. The Cascade...
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    Juan de Fuca Plate and the Gorda Plate forming respectively the Explorer Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda Ridge. In the middle of the eastern...
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    (geology) Axial Seamount Cascadia Channel Explorer Ridge Forearc Geology of the Pacific Northwest Gorda Ridge Overlapping spreading centers Cummings, Henry...
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    the subducted spreading center connected to the East Pacific Rise and Gorda Ridge beneath western North America, or possibly both. The asthenosphere erodes...
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  • descriptions of redirect targets Explorer Ridge – Mid-ocean ridge west of British Columbia, Canada Gorda Ridge – Tectonic spreading center off the northern coast...
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    Carnegie Ridge Chile Rise Darwin Rise East Pacific Rise East Tasman Plateau Explorer Ridge Galapagos Rise Gorda Ridge Hollister Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge Juan...
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    List of submarine topographical features (category Oceanic ridges)
    Gorda Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge Knipovich Ridge (between Greenland and Spitsbergen) Kolbeinsey Ridge (North of Iceland) Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mohns Ridge...
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    to positions of fracture zones that offset the Gorda Ridge, Explorer Ridge and the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The volcanoes with historical eruptions include:...
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    between the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda Ridge. The dominating feature of the fracture zone is the 150 km long Blanco Ridge, which is a high-angle,...
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    Center Gorda Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge Mid-Atlantic Ridge Knipovich Ridge Kolbeinsey Ridge Mohns Ridge Reykjanes Ridge Pacific-Antarctic Ridge South American–Antarctic...
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    the Molucca Sea is a narrow basin underlined by a north‐south ophiolitic ridge, which uplifts the central region of the basin. While the scientific community...
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    Zone – A right lateral transform fault zone between the Gorda Ridge and the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northwest Pacific Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone – a...
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  • Neolepetopsis. The specific name gordensis comes from Gorda Ridge, where this species was found. Gorda Ridge McLean J. H. (7 November 1990). "Neolepetopsidae...
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    (geomagnetic reversals) in successive bands of ocean floor parallel with mid-ocean ridges was important evidence for seafloor spreading, a concept central to the...
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  • geochemical modeling in support of ROV exploration of hydrothermal systems at Gorda Ridge off the coast of California aboard the EV Nautilus where data returned...
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    Tectonic plates Gorda Plate North American Plate Pacific Plate Contributing geodynamic features Cascadia subduction zone Gorda Ridge East Pacific Rise...
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  • known as the Mendocino Fault east of the Gorda Ridge) is a transform fault that separates the Pacific and Gorda Plates. To the south, the relative motion...
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  • His research group has studied microorganisms at Axial Seamount, North Gorda Ridge, and the CoAxial Segment in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, and Lost City...
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    known as the Mendocino Fault east of the Gorda Ridge) is a transform fault that separates the Pacific and Gorda Plates. To the south, the relative motion...
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  • President Jackson Seamounts (category Ridge volcanoes)
    independent and 4 morpohologically fused, just west of the northern Gorda Ridge. They are generally very small, and arranged linearly. The assembly consists...
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  • University Press (1990) ISBN 0-231-06792-5 Heat flow results from the Gorda Ridge. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open-file Report...
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    the Pacific Plate as the San Andreas Fault. The Juan de Fuca, Explorer, Gorda, Rivera, Cocos and Nazca plates are remnants of the Farallon Plate. The...
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