Bubble, bubble, more earthquake trouble? Geoscientists study Alaska’s Denali fault

Geochemists report findings from collected and analyzed helium and carbon isotopic data from springs along a nearly 250-mile segment of Alaska’s Denali Fault. The fault’s mantle fluid flow rates, they report, fall in the range observed for the world’s other major and active strike-slip faults that form plate boundaries.

Source: sciencedaily.com

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