#Subduction & Ocean Basin
28-Feb-95 17:38:39
Sb: #170879-#Subduction & Ocean Basin
Fm: Jon Woolf 76557,3537
To: Kamron Kirkconnell 73740,2246
Kamron,
>> Why would the transform faults still all line up across the Mid OCean Ridge
after millions of years of moving in all directions why are they mostly lined
up still? <<
There's no "why," because if I understand you right, this isn't what's
happening. The plates and the faults don't move "in all directions". The
faults move in directions dictated by plate motion. The plates move in
directions dictated by seafloor spreading.
Jon W.