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Rocks on faults can heal following seismic movement

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...
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Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault: New research explores geological processes along plate boundaries

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...
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Strong shaking at fault stepover has rocks--briefly--defying gravity

When a seismologist visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks clearly had been moved by the earthquakes ...
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Science: Pent-Up Fault

A famous possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San ...