“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Two opposite types of faults, normal and reverse, help explain our undersea mountain ridges. Scientists found that larger normal faults gave way to narrower ones caused by “unfaulting.” This unfaulting explains why there are surprising “reversal earthquakes” under the oceans. […]
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The Earth’s tectonic plates made the Himalayas — and could rip them apart
In the heart of Asia, deep underground, two huge tectonic plates are crashing into each other — a violent but slow-motion bout of geological bumper cars that over time has sculpted the soaring Himalayan mountains. But the ongoing tectonic collision that formed the highest mountains in the world may also be cleaving Tibet in two, […]