Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

UD doctoral student Melinda Bahruth studies rocks aboard a research vessel as part of a research cruise to the Gofar Transform Fault that runs underwater on the East Pacific Rise. Ocean geology.

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 ...

Continental transform earthquakes are quakes that occur when two tectonic plates slide past each other. This movement generates friction, which causes tension to build until the fault - or the ...

Transform faults, where tectonic plates move past each other, are one of three main plate boundaries on Earth and about 48,000 km in length globally, with the others being the global mid-ocean ...

The cumulative slip along continental transform faults “smash and shear rocks within a zone about 100 meters wide around the fault,” Stein explained, forming a type of rock called cataclastite.

The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world. A meeting of the North American and Pacific tectonic plates, this transform fault (where two tectonic plates move ...