Fixing a hole in the ocean.
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Using a seafloor-exploring robot, the UW team learned that the bubbles "were just a minor component of warm, chemically distinct fluid gushing from the seafloor sediment." "Loss of fluid from the offshore megathrust interface through these strike-slip faults is important," the statement notes, "because it lowers the fluid pressure between the sediment particles and hence increases the friction between the oceanic and continental plates."
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