The Denali Fault is a strike-slip fault, a place where two chunks of continental crust slide past each other. On Nov. 3, 2002, the fault jolted, creating a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that knocked ...

New research on the Denali Fault reveals three geologic sites were once united in a suture zone, marking the integration of ...

The Denali Fault is what scientists call a strike-slip fault. This is essentially ... the basis of new research published in the journal Geology. However, nobody had dug deep into the theory ...

A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California in early December triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the ...

Many of the world's continents are bounded or traversed by vast fault networks that move laterally ... from advanced students of geology and researchers specializing in strike-slip regimes to ...

Along the northwestern coast of North America, a curling crack in Earth’s crust tells the story of cataclysmic tectonic ...

New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic ... reconstruction of strike-slip faults such as ...

The fluid-rich zones in the crust seem to coincide with some of the strike-slip faults of the region. Wannamaker and colleagues suggest that the upward fluid flux in the region could have weakened ...

The geology at those three sites showed clear ... and a big part of that is related to reconstruction of strike-slip faults such as the Denali Fault. We’re starting to recognize those primary ...