Nearly three miles beneath the eastern Pacific, researchers found pockets of super-salty water trapped in the crust along the Gofar transform fault, one of the planet’s most active undersea plate boundaries. The find promises fresh insight into why this fault delivers magnitude‑6 earthquakes with clock‑like discipline. The survey, led by Christine Chesley of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), used controlled‑source …
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