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A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the ...

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In some areas, the plates move away from each other, forming new bits of crust, as seen at mid-ocean ridges. In other areas, called convergent boundaries, one plate dives beneath another, causing ...