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 ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 19 (May 12, 2020), pp. 10188-10194 (7 pages) Oceanic transform faults display a unique combination of ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (February 12, 2024) – Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry ...

Figure 1: Seismic sequence related to the Blanco, 6.2 M w earthquake of June 2000. Figure 3: Variations in isothermal compressibility of seawater (at 3.2 wt% NaCl), with temperature and pressure 27,28 ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence. In a new article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team ...

Before starting graduate school, University of Delaware doctoral student Melinda Bahruth said she never thought she would be on a research vessel or conducting geological research at sea. The Kansas ...

Sixty earthquakes — ranging from magnitude 3.4 to 5.8 — were recorded off the Oregon across Tuesday and Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. The series of quakes is centered about 200 to 270 ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (April 11, 2025) - Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence. In a new article published in ...