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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Blanco Transform Fault has earthquakes very often. It’s a very active system, but not likely to present a hazard to people. That said, the last 24 hours have been unusual from the Blanco, ...

Continental transform faults evolve when two plates slide along each other. The most prominent examples are the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Earthquakes ...

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 transform fault that ruptured during the 2016 quake looks quite wide on the ocean surface, Hicks said. If it's similarly broad all the way into the crust, ...

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 quake occurred on or near a transform fault that forms part of the North America / Eurasia plate boundary, the USGS reported. "At the latitude of this earthquake, ...