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 San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American ...

Ask them what kind of stress results in this type of fault (compression, tension, or shear). Ask them near what plate boundary (convergent, divergent, and transform) one can expect to see this ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely ... three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of plates, which have moved throughout Earth's history. The theory explains the how and why behind mountains, volcanoes, and ...

A devastating earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck Myanmar on Friday, sending shockwaves across Southeast Asia.

The BFZ is a transform plate boundary, where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally, which connects the Juan de Fuca ridge with the Gorda rise spreading centers. The fault starts ...

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 ...

like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, 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 ...

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