💧🌏 Greg CocksOct 27
Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
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[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity
Xamanismo ColetivoMar 29, 2025

"Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the #SagaingFault.

This is where the Indian #tectonicplate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of #SoutheastAsia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California.

"The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means #earthquakes can rupture over large areas — and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the #earthquake."

https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/03/29/world/asia-oceania/scientists-explain-why-myanmar-quake-was-so-deadly/2082589

Scientists explain why Myanmar quake was so deadly

BANGKOK, Thailand — Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modelling suggesting thousands could be dead.

The Manila Times
💧🌏 Greg CocksJan 19, 2024
Massive Tectonic Collision Causing Himalayas To Grow May Also Be Splitting Tibet Apart
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/massive-tectonic-collision-causing-himalayas-to-grow-may-also-be-splitting-tibet-apart <-- shared technical article
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https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.170000377.75686509/v1 <-- shared (pre-print) paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #tectonics #platetectonics #remotesensing #seismic #seismology #earthquakes #Tibet #Indian #Eurasian #plate #himalayas #geology #structuralgeology #tectonicplate #mountains #mountainrange #model #modeling #uplift #underplating #subduction #geoscience #earthscience #crust #geologicmodel
Massive tectonic collision causing Himalayas to grow may also be splitting Tibet apart

The Indian plate may be peeling into two as it slides under the Eurasian plate, tearing Tibet apart in the process.

Live Science
💧🌏 Greg CocksDec 1, 2023
New Maps Of Global Geological Provinces And Tectonic Plate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104069 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #tectonicplate #tectonicprovince #orogenicsystem #orogeny #geodynamics #spatialanalysis #geology #structuralgeology #tectonics #platetectonics #global #earth #opendata #spatialdata #GPS #earthquakes #volcanoes #topography #elevation #model #modeling #crust #mantle #geoscience #lithosphere #faults #faulting #geochronology #deformationzones #GitHub
💧🌏 Greg CocksSep 5, 2023
Unlocking Seismic Secrets - Researchers Unearth The Mysteries Of How Turkey’s East Anatolian Fault Formed
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https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-seismic-secrets-researchers-unearth-the-mysteries-of-how-turkeys-east-anatolian-fault-formed/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/G51211.1 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #earthquakes #model #modeling #fault #faulting #structuralgeology #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #seismic #seismicdata #EastAnatolianFault #Turkey #Syria #Anatolia #risk #hazard #platetectonics #tectonicplate #riskassessment
#NSF
Unlocking Seismic Secrets: Researchers Unearth the Mysteries of How Turkey’s East Anatolian Fault Formed

A University of Minnesota professor heads an international group of geoscientists investigating earthquake-impacted regions. An international team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has successfully determined the age and formation process of the East Anatolian fault, extending from the

SciTechDaily
Ganga NewsAug 12, 2023

W. Jason Morgan, who developed the theory of plate tectonics, died at 87.

#WJasonMorgan #JasonMorgan #TectonicsPlate #TectonicPlate

https://www.ganganews.com/breaking/news-headlines-updates-world-12-august-2023/

W. Jason Morgan, who developed the theory of plate tectonics, died at 87 : Ganga News

W. Jason Morgan, who developed the theory of plate tectonics, died at 87

Ganga News
Show threadanneeroperNov 18, 2022
@lithospheric
That rocks! AT first I thought you'd written #Vulcan #Progeny and I wondered if #Spock's #PonFar had therefore been successful? Then I wiki'd & found: "the #VariscanOrogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between #Euramerica #Larussia & #Gondwana to form the supercontinent #Pangaea"--aka a massive pile-up on a #TectonicPlate expressway... #Cool #Rock&Roll #StarTrek #AnthonyNewley #GonnaBuildAMountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ndwRieyoc