
New Zealand’s Alpine Fault reveals extreme underground heat and fluid pressure - Guest Work
Guest Author • May 18, 2017 •
By Rupert Sutherland, Victoria University of Wellington An international team that drilled almost a kilometre deep into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault, which is expected to rupture in a major earthquake in the next decades, has found extremely hot temperatures and high fluid pressures. Our findings, published today in Nature, describe these surprising underground conditions. They have broad … Read More