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 ...

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought of as simple ... but we haven’t yet been able to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional project ...

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 ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the plates. Mountains and a rift can be seen along the San Andreas Fault.

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought ... but we haven’t yet been able to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional project funding ...

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