Core Sampling on Expedition 375 (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Core Sampling on Expedition 375

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Demian Saffer, director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and Laura Wallace, a UTIG research scientist, examine rock samples drilled from about half a mile under the seafloor in a fault in New Zealand during a 2018 scientific ocean drilling mission that they co-led. Lab tests revealed that clay-rich rocks are regulating earthquakes there by allowing the fault to slip harmlessly.

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Tim Fulton, IODP JRSO.

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