Popular Myth Busted – New Findings Challenge Old Earthquake Models

The first high-precision image of a seismic fault zone transforms our knowledge of earthquakes. The idea that earthquakes release stress by a single strong quake along a single fault plane may need to be corrected. Recent research conducted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in collabo

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Today: #VolcanoThursday meets #StructuralGeology. Last year during #hedgewatch on #Iceland we found this #slickenline in #lava from the 1st 2023 #eruption at #Fagradalsfjall. The scratch originated when a block of solidified lava was pushed over softer lava
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....... Fig 3 #Slickenlines are impawtent if you find them on #faultplanes because they can tell you in which direction the #rocks moved🙀 This example is from #Crete

#geology #slickenside