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The Banda Detachment fault beneath the Weber Deep basin. A - cross section through eastern Banda arc, cut parallel to grooves on fault surfaces and proposed direction of rollback; geometry of proto-Banda Sea slab is inferred from earthquake hypocenter locations catalogued by International Seismological Centre Online Bulletin; KSZ - Kawa shear zone. B - enlargement of Banda detachment showing schematically the configuration of over-riding continental allochthons (dark red); red triangles represent volcanoes. Image credit: Jonathan M. Pownall et al, doi: 10.1130/G38051.1.

Geologists Find Largest Exposed Fault on Earth

Nov 29, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of geologists from the Australian National University and Royal Holloway University of London has for the first time documented the...