Fig. 8: Crustal thinning versus length of tectonic discontinuities. | Nature Communications

Fig. 8: Crustal thinning versus length of tectonic discontinuities.

From: Seismic evidence for uniform crustal accretion along slow-spreading ridges in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Fig. 8: Crustal thinning versus length of tectonic discontinuities.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Crustal thinning towards oceanic transform fault (TF) or non-transform offset (NTO) in the Atlantic Ocean as a function of the length of TF or NTO. Only crustal thickness constrained by active-source seismic data is considered. The blue squares show results from this study for the equatorial Atlantic. For a TF composed of several intra-transform faults, the total length of the TF is used. Data sources are given in Supplementary Table 4.

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