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DB 🌱💦<p>If there was a Nobel prize for science comedy, Elle Cordova would win it for this geological meet cute 🌏 </p><p>C: @ellecordova on IG</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Deep Beneath California's Sierra Nevada, Earth's Lithosphere May Be Peeling Away<br>--<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-deep-beneath-california-sierra-nevada.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-deep-ben</span><span class="invisible">eath-california-sierra-nevada.html</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111290" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111290</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> &lt;-- shared paper<br>--<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lithosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lithosphere</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SierraNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SierraNevada</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/continentalcrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continentalcrust</span></a> <a 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noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthquake</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatialanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatiotemporal</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/structuralgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralgeology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthquake</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/seismic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seismic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/seismology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seismology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Moho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moho</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shearzone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shearzone</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/faults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>faults</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/faulting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>faulting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/seismicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seismicity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modeling</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/3dmodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3dmodel</span></a></p>
Rich Stein (he/him)<p>1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth’s surface in a new animation<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/witness-1-8-billion-years-of-tectonic-plates-dance-across-earths-surface-in-a-new-animation-238209" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/witness-1-</span><span class="invisible">8-billion-years-of-tectonic-plates-dance-across-earths-surface-in-a-new-animation-238209</span></a> v <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheConversationUS</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pangaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pangaea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gondwana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gondwana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rodinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rodinia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuna</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>In less than 10 million years, California could be an island offhore of North America, and the new coastline might be in Nevada. Geologists are studying an extensive series of earthquake faults in western Nevada to determine whether parts of western North America might be starting to wander off.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/earthquakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthquakes</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NorthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/seismology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seismology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/geophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geophysics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/nevada-stories/walker-lane" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">unr.edu/nevada-today/nevada-st</span><span class="invisible">ories/walker-lane</span></a></p>
Bill Minarik<p>Quebec has industrial quantities of kyanite -although I don't think any are being mined today. They're in the Grenville, the roots of the Himalayan-scale mountains formed over a billion years ago. The screenshot below is from MinDat: <a href="https://www.mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14009&amp;m=2303" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14</span><span class="invisible">009&amp;m=2303</span></a></p><p>The Ministère has an awkwardly translated page "Mineral Substances in Quebec" that includes Kyanite in its list of wealth:<br><a href="https://gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/portail-substances-minerales_en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/portail-su</span><span class="invisible">bstances-minerales_en/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MinCup24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MinCup24</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Kyanite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyanite</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quebec</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Grenville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grenville</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minerals</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Witness 1.8 Billion Years Of Tectonic Plates Dance Across Earth’s Surface In A New Animation<br>--<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/witness-1-8-billion-years-of-tectonic-plates-dance-across-earths-surface-in-a-new-animation-238209" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/witness-1-</span><span class="invisible">8-billion-years-of-tectonic-plates-dance-across-earths-surface-in-a-new-animation-238209</span></a> &lt;-- shared article<br>--<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101922" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101</span><span class="invisible">922</span></a> &lt;-- shared paper<br>--<br><a href="https://youtu.be/_LJG68AmZxI?si=BBBDZg8Qn7DPy2WV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/_LJG68AmZxI?si=BBBDZg</span><span class="invisible">8Qn7DPy2WV</span></a> &lt;-- shared animation<br>--<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modeling</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/structuralgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralgeology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>global</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tectonicplates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tectonicplates</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Gondwana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gondwana</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/continents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continents</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatiotemporal</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Pangaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pangaea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Rodinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rodinia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Nuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuna</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/supercontinent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supercontinent</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/reconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reconstruction</span></a></p>
Chris Rowan<p>This is a nice write-up of how plate tectonics may have got going on Earth: a progressive development over a couple of billion years, from no plate boundaries, to localised and intermittent ones, to a full planetary system, makes a lot of sense. It would also explain why different lines of evidence produce such different start dates: it's a convolution of a fragmentary and intermittent process and a fragmentary and intermittent geological record.<br><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02602-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-02602-3</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>New Study Refutes Leading Theory of Continent Formation<br><a href="https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geoscience/continent-formation-theory-13152.html#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sci.news/othersciences/geoscie</span><span class="invisible">nce/continent-formation-theory-13152.html#</span></a> geology <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/continents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Ancient crystals point to a surprisingly early start for plate tectonics<br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-crystals-point-surprisingly-early-start-plate-tectonics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/an</span><span class="invisible">cient-crystals-point-surprisingly-early-start-plate-tectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EarthScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geohistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geohistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zircon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zircon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>If you blew up a nuke in the earths crust below the ocean, could you make a hole big enough that magma would flow out and create an island like Hawaii</p><p>Asking for a friend</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/askFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askFedi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaii</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>No, this big swarn of earthquakes happening under the Pacific Ocean west of Canada's Vancouver Island isn't a sign that a big subduction quake is imminent. But the tremors do mean that scientists are about to get a good look at how new crust forms as the sea floor spreads on a mid-ocean ridge.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/geophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SeafloorSpreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeafloorSpreading</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MidoceanRidges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MidoceanRidges</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/volcanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volcanism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/2000-earthquakes-in-1-day-off-canada-coast-suggest-the-ocean-floor-is-ripping-apart-scientists-say" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/e</span><span class="invisible">arthquakes/2000-earthquakes-in-1-day-off-canada-coast-suggest-the-ocean-floor-is-ripping-apart-scientists-say</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Mars Had its Own Version of Plate Tectonics<br><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/165919/mars-had-its-own-version-of-plate-tectonics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">universetoday.com/165919/mars-</span><span class="invisible">had-its-own-version-of-plate-tectonics/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Mars experienced a precursor to plate tectonics - Enlarge / Ridges and basins in the Eridania Basin on Mars. (credit: NAS... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2003262" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2003262</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/planetaryscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planetaryscience</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/volcanoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volcanoes</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mars</span></a></p>
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin<p>Your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> lesson for today:<br>The Earth's crust is fragile in tension/shear &amp; spins faster at the poles than the equator (centrifugal force). The crust spins slower than the molten core (CF) &amp; therefore is riddled with long, continuous, north-south, east-west trending fractures. A spinning molten ball differentiated via centerfuge, the outside frozen &amp; breaking/sliding on that liquid surface (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a>).<br>Some of this is controvertial....<br>But look at Google Earth -&gt; Pacific</p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Plate tectonics in the Archean: Observation versus interpretation<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-plate-tectonics-archean.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-01-plate-te</span><span class="invisible">ctonics-archean.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Precambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Precambrian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Phanerozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phanerozoic</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>Large parts of eastern Europe and western Asia used to be covered by a freshwater lake bigger than the Mediterranean.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PaleoOceanography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoOceanography</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ParatethysSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParatethysSea</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/rise-and-fall-world-s-largest-lake" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/ri</span><span class="invisible">se-and-fall-world-s-largest-lake</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>Tasmania's geology is more closely related to that of North America and Antarctica than it is to the rest of Australia. Seriously. </p><p>This video shows how geologists think that this seemingly unlikely situation came about.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Tasmania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tasmania</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ContinentalDrift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContinentalDrift</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_Hcyfv5rU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=_f_Hcyfv5r</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>Very cool chevron fold in a gray shale cliff at Hartland Quay, Devon, UK. The rock is about 320 million years old.</p><p>I couldn't tell the scale from this pic, but I was able to find another photo that had a human in it. That cave opening looks to be around 10 ft/3 m high.</p><p>Lots more info on this site here: <a href="https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Policy-and-Media/Outreach/Plate-Tectonic-Stories/Hartland-Quay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">geolsoc.org.uk/Policy-and-Medi</span><span class="invisible">a/Outreach/Plate-Tectonic-Stories/Hartland-Quay</span></a></p><p>Photo: K. Read.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/folding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folding</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devon</span></a></p>
Janice Selbie<p>Go, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> ! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a> Long-lost part of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> that disappeared 20 million years ago has been discovered <a href="https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/science-discovery-reconstruction-plate-tectonic-pontus-883539-20231013" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">unilad.com/news/world-news/sci</span><span class="invisible">ence-discovery-reconstruction-plate-tectonic-pontus-883539-20231013</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JasonMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JasonMorgan</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Princeton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Princeton</span></a> University physicist turned geoscientist, and discoverer of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> has died. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03145-9?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=nature&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR0-A5W8gehmIvjL6mij37HJRjTC3Reeo6_tTfW-rU-7WLzIn4WDYeQrbtc#Echobox=1696617867-1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-023</span><span class="invisible">-03145-9?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=nature&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR0-A5W8gehmIvjL6mij37HJRjTC3Reeo6_tTfW-rU-7WLzIn4WDYeQrbtc#Echobox=1696617867-1</span></a></p>
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