Strike-slip faults are typically associated with transform plate boundaries. One of the most well-known examples is the San Andreas Fault in California, where the Pacific Plate and North American ...

"Plate boundaries are always growing and changing, so these faults develop kinks and bends as they slide past each other, which generates more faults," van der Elst said. Plate boundaries where ...

Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reveals that the Pacific Plate, which constitutes most of the floor of the Pacific Ocean, is being torn apart by large undersea faults.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Finding faults deeply stressful First investigation of stress state below plate boundary fault of Tohoku earthquake Date: December 8, 2022 Source: ...

Earthquakes can occur along faults far from the edges of plates. Although these earthquakes are much less common, they are due to the same forces that cause earthquakes along plate boundaries. Types ...

"This study clearly demonstrates horizontal plate movements before 3 billion years ago," study co-author Timothy Kusky, director of the Center for Global Tectonics at the China University of ...

Morgan's paper on plate tectonics revolutionized the field of geology in the late 1960s. ... Great Faults, and Crustal Blocks,’ he revealed to the geological profession the existence of plate ...

A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move ...

The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula could cause large tsunamis, according to a new study published recently in Nature Communications. Due to a lack of data, the studies ...