In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust ... This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world.

“We think this heat source is magma near the transform fault.” The authors hypothesized ... both above and below the waves—pushing the boundaries of knowledge to inform people and policies ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based ...

They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries ... “We think this heat source is magma near the transform fault.” The authors ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...