Countless seismic faults just as dangerous as the one that triggered Monday's San Simeon earthquake are suspected to be lurking throughout the Bay Area. Scientists have known about some of these ...
Outline diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. (b) Schematic diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. A pioneering study published in Geoscience—a premier journal ...
Over recent geologic time, as the lunar interior cooled and contracted the entire moon shrank by about 100 m. As a result, its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive ...