A recent study has revealed extensive data on how strike-slip faults develop over time and eventually cause earthquakes at the Earth's surface. Researchers coined the movement of two plates in a ...

Structural geology is the discipline devoted to the study of rock deformation and the resulting features – such as folds, faults, joints and other discontinuities – that record the history of tectonic ...

Structural geologist Michele Cooke calls it the "million-dollar question" that underlies all work in her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: what goes on deep in the earth as strike ...

Structural and petrologic development of the Baker terrane, Blue Mountains, NE Oregon. Crustal growth along the southern margin of Laurentia, Sierra Madre, Wyoming, and Park Range, Colorado. Tectonic ...