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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The distant detection of an earthquake beneath the Caribbean Sea has helped reveal an unexpected bend in an oceanic fault line. Earthquakes at oceanic transform faults, where tectonic plates slide ...
The article, entitled "Stress variations in space and time within the mantle section of an oceanic transform zone: Evidence for the seismic cycle" by Chatzaras et al., documents microstructures in a ...
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 ...