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The two spreading center tips are 15 km apart and separated by a diffuse shear zone. A broad V\u2010shaped wake of disturbed topography and magnetics occurs on the flanks of the EPR near the offset. On a fine scale, the offset is tectonically much more complex than either the typical OSC or propagating rift structures for two reasons. First, it is a \u201cdueling propagator\u201d in which structures produced by successive short\u2010term episodes of northward and southward propagation have overprinted each other, with migration toward the south prevailing over the long term. Second, its offset distance is such that its tectonic behavior may be transitional from that of a propagating rift to that of an OSC system. The offset's rate of migration to the south has been <jats:sup>\u223c<\/jats:sup>20 mm\/yr over the last 2 m.y., far less than total opening rate of 162 mm\/yr. Distinct propagation events may have been much more rapid, however, surging north and south at rates of 160\u2013230 mm\/yr. In the process, several fossil spreading ridges 30\u201350 km long have been abandoned and rafted to the side. We propose a fine scale tectonic evolution in which a propagating spreading center either curves inside or runs outside of a soon to be abandoned, propagating rift tip. We call this process \u201cself\u2010decapitation.\u201d Dueling propagation at 20\u00b040\u2032S may be caused by competing magmatic sources at shallow points along the EPR: one to the north near 20\u00b0S and one to the south near 21\u00b030\u2032S. The 20\u00b040\u2032S dueling propagator occurs at a long\u2010wavelength low in the axial depth profile between these competing sources. 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