New Zealand fault hole reveals secrets of Ear

Wellington: An international team of scientists drilling a 1.3-km deep hole into the Alpine Fault in New Zealand's South Island said that they have been gaining valuable insights into the Earth's crust and now they are less than a quarter of the way down. The New Zealand-led team had drilled a 240 meters deep bore hole, the ever attempted in the fault, through gravel-laden sediments, north of the Franz Josef Glacier where a metamorphic bedrock was hit. Project co-leader, John Townend of Victor...