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The Emerald Fracture Zone (62°S 170°E) is an undersea fracture zone running the distance from the southwest corner of the Campbell Plateau to the northern tip of Iselin Bank. The name was proposed by Dr. Steven C. Cande of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the vessel Emerald, which traversed this region in 1821, and was approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997. The Emerald Basin to its north west was named from the same source. Some have restricted the name to the southern east west orientated transform fault zone but the north south orientated faults that define the eastern boundary of the Emerald Basin are generally included in the literature.
Geology
The latest reinterpretation of the ocean floor geology of the region based on magnetic data assigns the area of the fault zone to oceanic crust of Eocene to Miocene age and so would distinguish other north south fault zones in the Cretaceous oceanic crust to the south east of the Campbell Plateau.
The fracture zone is related to the Hjort Trench that represents the southern end of the Australian Plate and Pacific Plate convergence, contains the Macquarie Triple Junction at its south western margin and mainly acts as a leaky transform fault zone between the Antarctic Plate and Pacific Plate. It has only moderate current seismic activity. An example was the Mww5.9 event of 9 June 2023.
Tectonics
The clockwise rotation of the Pacific Plate and Antarctic Plate between 12 and 10 million years ago resulted in fragmentation of the long-offset Emerald transform fault and its replacement over less than 2 million years with closely spaced, highly variable transform offsets that were joined by short ridge segments. There was asymmetrical spreading rates in the area of the leaky transform fault zone near the Macquarie Triple Junction.
See also
Macquarie Fault Zone
Macquarie Triple Junction
References
External links
"Marine Gazetteer Placedetails: Emerald Fracture Zone".
This article incorporates public domain material from "Emerald Fracture Zone". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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