Mastodawn

Influence Of Inherited Rifted Margin Architecture On Continental Collision Dynamics
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012681 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/404299243_Influence_of_Inherited_Rifted_Margin_Architecture_on_Continental_Collision_Dynamics <-- shared paper
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#tectonics #geoscience #geology #mountainbuilding #orogeny #subduction #rifting #Alps #Pyrenees #Caucasus #mountains #numericalmodelling #structuralgeology #platetectonics #Europe #Asia #continents #rockmemory #continentalcollision #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #crust #mantle #reconstruction #sediment #erosion #rift #wilsoncycle #accretion #lithosphere

grateful wolf May 4

Paleolatitude [interactive map] - see how the latitude of any location has changed over time - via @Emiliagnathus #latitude #ContinentalDrift #PlateTectonics #mapstodon https://paleolatitude.org//

Paleolatitude

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Apr 30

🌍🏘️ #Earth scientists engineered a digital #map that tracks how tectonic plates have shifted over millions of years.

By entering a city or specific coordinates, users can see where that location sat on the #planet during different geological eras. The tool uses decades of collected #data to explain how land masses have drifted and rotated to their current positions.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-04-backyard-millions-years.html

#geology #earthscience #platetectonics #geography #maps #science #research #innovation #history #nature #evolution

Where was your backyard millions of years ago?

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, right back to the heyday of the supercontinent Pangea 320 million years ago. The work has been published in PLOS One.

Phys.org

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 30

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Isn’t Shutting Down – But It’s More Complicated Than We Thought
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https://theconversation.com/the-cascadia-subduction-zone-isnt-shutting-down-but-its-more-complicated-than-we-thought-279730 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady8347 <-- shared paper
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#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #Earthquakes #engineeringgeology #geology #risk #hazard #fault #faulting #Vancouver #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Seattle #OlympicPeninsula #PugetSound #WashingtonState #PNW #PacificNorthwest #NorthAmerica #plateboundary #subduction #platetectonics #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #seismicity #seismic #geophysics #offshore #remotesensing #Cascadia #CascadiaSubductionZone #mechanics #lithosphere##

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 14

Subduction Retrieval [XKCD]
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https://xkcd.com/3218/
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“PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it…
Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!...”
#PSA #geology #platetectonics #subduction #margins #XKCD #fedservice #publicservice #RingOfFire #weddingring #humor #humour #PacificOcean
#USGS #XKCD

giantspacesquid

Apr 12

The straight will open naturally.
#PlateTectonics 😜

Ars Technica News Apr 10

New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone https://arstechni.ca/bnxm #platetectonics #yellowstone #volcanism #hotspots #Science #geology

New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone.

Ars Technica

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Steve Woods Apr 2

@ChrisMayLA6 I'm grateful for the spreading mid-Atlantic ridge.

#PlateTectonics

Megan Lynch (she/her)Mar 6

The ‘Big One’ just got more complicated

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7107713 #Canada #Earthquake #PlateTectonics

The ‘Big One’ just got more complicated

Scientists have discovered a massive tear in the tectonic plate off the coast of Vancouver Island. This "rip" suggests that the northern end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone is actually starting to shut down. The CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe investigates what this discovery might mean for the "Big One" off the coast of Vancouver Island.

CBC

Textbooks For Life Feb 10

This comprehensive undergraduate textbook Plate Tectonics delivers a contemporary and in-depth exploration of plate tectonics, making it an ideal resource for a capstone geology course.