Earth is plain 'lazy' along some earthquake faults
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 12:50
in Earth & Climate
By Crystal GammonLiveScienceThe Earth's crust may have something in common with a lot of people: It tends to be lazy, at least when it comes to moving along certain types of seismic faults, new research says.Using a special clay system to model a strike-slip fault (where one tectonic plate slides past another) with a bend that restrains the fault's movement, researchers found that the crust tends ...