ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
The ‘orphan’ boundary type in plate tectonics: oceanic transform faults reconstructed
The plate tectonic revolution gave birth to three types of plate boundaries; two got most of the interest, i.e., the mid-ocean ridges where new ocean floor is formed and subduction zones where the lithosphere is recycled back into the Earth’s interior. In the oceans, the third type, the “simple” strike-slip conservative plate boundary or oceanic transform fault (OTF), was treated like an orphan in a Charles Dickens novel. However, recent observations challenge plate tectonics, revealing that OTFs show unexpected complex behaviour. The morphology of oceanic transform systems and numerical modelling suggests that OTFs are extensional below their strike-slip faults at the surface. Later in…
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