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  • Pitman Fracture Zone is an undersea fracture zone named for Dr. Walter C. Pitman II, a geophysicist and pioneer in studies of continental drift and seafloor...
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    Zone Pioneer Fracture Zone Murray Fracture Zone Molokai Fracture Zone Sovanco Fracture Zone Sedna Fracture Zone Sila Fracture Zone Aja Fracture Zone Cobb...
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    Raymond, C. A.; Stock, J.; Haxby, W. F. (1995). "Geophysics of the Pitman Fracture Zone and Pacific-Antarctic plate motions during the Cenozoic". Science...
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    The Aleutian subduction zone is a 2,500 mi (4,000 km) long convergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate, that extends from...
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  • it has also been applied to other situations such as viscous fingering, fracture mechanics, hydrogen embrittlement, and vesicle dynamics. The method substitutes...
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    Trench in the Indian Ocean is in fact a fracture zone named trench to avoid confusion with the Vema Fracture Zone in the Atlantic Ocean mentioned above...
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  • and the pilot later died of his injuries. West of Pacific, Pitman acknowledged William Pitman Lett Hinton, GTP vice-president and general manager. The post...
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    Keeptapwatersafe.org. 14 September 2012. Pitman, Janet K.; Price, Leigh C.; LeFever, Julie A. (2001), Diagenesis and Fracture Development in the Bakken Formation...
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  • within the material being crushed so that its molecules separate from (fracturing), or change alignment in relation to (deformation), each other. The earliest...
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    dormant. The regions lacking new eruptions keep in touch to positions of fracture zones that offset the Gorda Ridge, Explorer Ridge and the Juan de Fuca Ridge...
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    became a tourist attraction in the 1840s, and businessmen such as Benjamin Pitman and George Lycurgus operated a series of hotels at the rim, including Volcano...
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    ocean floor by submersibles, dredging (especially from ridge crests and fracture zones) and drilling. Oceanic crust is significantly simpler than continental...
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    many places marked by the inactive scars of transform faults called fracture zones. At faster spreading rates the axes often display overlapping spreading...
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    needed] Slumping happens on steep hillsides, occurring along distinct fracture zones, often within materials like clay that, once released, may move quite...
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    theory postulates that the ship broke from compression forces and not fracture tension, which resulted in a bottom-to-top break. In this model, the double-bottom...
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    Kauffman, American Brutus, p. 15. Kauffman, American Brutus, pp. 272–73. Pitman, Benn, ed. (1865). The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial...
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    Gaswirth; Kristen R. Marra; Phuong A. Le; Tracey J. Mercier; Janet K. Pitman; Marilyn E. Tennyson (June 2016). "Assessment of Continuous (Unconventional)...
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    Trials at Columbia, S.C. in the United States Circuit Court. Edited by Benn Pitman and Louis Freeland Post. Columbia, SC: Republican Printing Company, 1872...
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    Diagenesis and Fracture Development in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin: Implications for Reservoir Quality in the Middle Member, by Janet K. Pitman, Leigh...
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     582–84. ISBN 978-0-08-091993-5. Jefferson, Thomas A.; Webber, Marc A.; Pitman, Robert L. (2015). Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to...
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