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 movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

Another theory is that gravity is pulling the older, colder, and thus heavier ocean floor with more force than the newer, lighter seafloor. Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity ...

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

If there is land at the edge of one of these plates, the ocean plate will subduct ... creating mountain ranges. A transform boundary occurs where two plates slide against each other.

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 ...

These plates can be oceanic ... which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as Transform Faults. As the plates scrape past each ...