More information: Christine Chesley et al, Evidence for crustal brines and deep fluid infiltration in an oceanic transform fault, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu3661 Provided by ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden ...

The San Andreas transform system is the plate boundary between the Pacific and North American ... continuous fault in California, extending 800 miles from the Salton Sea to Cape Mendocino.

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 ...