Volcano spacing, fractures, and thickness of the lithosphere

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Feb 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974e%26psl..21..235v&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 235-252.

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Both ``hot-spot'' type and possibly island-arc volcanoes may form at the intersections of fractures whose spacing is near the thickness of the lithosphere and increases with increasing thickness. An approximate equality between layer thickness and spacing of major fractures observed in some sedimentary rocks and clay cake models may thus extend to the ``mega-joints'' that have fractured the lithosphere and controlled volcano spacing on the earth, and possibly on Mars. If the hot-spot fractures are interpreted as due to shear, many hot-spot fracture systems suggest roughly north-south least principal stress, or, alternatively in some instances, a 90° rotation of this pattern.

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