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 ...

The Sagaing Fault links the divergent boundary in the Andaman Sea with the zone of active continental collision along the Himalayan front. It passes through the populated cities of Mandalay ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field off the coast of the Galápagos Islands, aided ...

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

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

The fault is a primarily continental right-lateral transform fault between the Indian and Sunda plates. The Sagaing Fault links the divergent boundary in the Andaman Sea with the zone of active ...

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 ...