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 ...

The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely ... three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates ...

Ask them what kind of stress results in this type of fault (compression, tension, or shear). Ask them near what plate boundary (convergent, divergent, and transform) one can expect to see this ...

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

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought of as simple, predictable features. They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent ...

like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as Transform Faults. As the plates scrape past ...