Scientists studying the massive earthquake that struck the South Pacific on September 29, 2009, have found that it actually involved two great earthquakes: an initial one with magnitude 8.1, which ...
The immense Olympus Mons volcano on Mars (about 23 km tall and 600 km wide) exhibits a somewhat lopsided structure: elongated to the northwest, shortened to the southeast, with corresponding types of ...
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan—the most powerful quake to hit the country in modern times, and the fourth most powerful in the world since modern record ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract AbstractBasin and Range extensional structures in Trans-Pecos Texas have been interpreted to be strongly influenced by preexisting structures, ...
The northwestern margin of the Hetao Graben, North China, is bounded by a pronounced 160-km-long Langshan Piedmont fault (LPF). The kinematics and recent tectonic activity of this rift-border fault ...
Title: Variations in Subduction Bending-Related Normal Faulting of the Incoming Juan De Fuca Plate Along the Cascadia Margin Abstract: At most subduction zones, old and cold oceanic lithosphere ...