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A Tectonic Enigma Is Hiding Beneath the Ocean Floor

“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. […]