“East Antarctica is in fact a graveyard of continental remnants. [Scientists]
have created stunning 3-D maps of the southernmost continent’s tectonic
underworld and found that the ice has been concealing wreckage of an ancient
supercontinent’s spectacular destruction.”
posted Saturday, January 11, 2020, 12:07:43pm PST
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“We have a variety of reference frames tied to the deeper hot spots. These
exclude the presumed shallow spots which come from the upper mantle. We can
also create a reference frame from those shallow spots. … Now all plates are
moving west! Even Europe, which other frames bring to a halt, is now taking
part.”
Albert Zijlstra ,
Westward drift
(Volcano Café ,
September 25, 2022 ,
via ooh! directory )
posted 12/28/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The Okmok II eruption lasted from
43 BCE to
41 BCE , but its effects on the other side of the world
lasted more than a decade. Ancient writers describe crop failures and famine in
northern Italy and northern Greece from April 43 BCE
through 36 BCE .”
posted 3/25/2021 9:29pm ∞
“[O]ne slab sinking below the Mantle Transition Zone can create a mantle
undertow that squeezes up mountains on an entirely different plate,
660 kilometers above it. This new level of tectonics now makes sense of
other geological puzzles.”
Howard Lee ,
Plate tectonics runs deeper than we thought
(Ars Technica ,
October 3, 2019 )