For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

An international survey effort headed by researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences (E&ES) accurately determined the age and formation of the East ...

New findings begin to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen, and they could eventually help lead future researchers to develop better earthquake ...

An international team has, for the first time, accurately determined the age of the East Anatolian fault, allowing geologists to learn more about its seismic history and tendency to produce ...

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The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike‑slip transform fault stretching roughly 1,200 km in California. It marks the tectonic boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates ...

Geologists have been given a “one-of-a-kind” window into Scotland’s geological past as they analyse core rock drilled from the Great Glen Fault during investigations for a hydro-storage scheme. The ...

An international team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has, for the first time, accurately determined the age and formation process of the East Anatolian fault, which runs from eastern ...

A study by Brown researchers finds that changes in tectonic plate thickness across the Denali Fault in Alaska impact where it is located, shedding light on how major faults and earthquakes occur.