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Alfred Wegener is often regarded as the "Father of Plate Tectonics" and proposed the concept of Continental Drift in 1912 based on his study of similar rock type, geological structures, and fossils on both sides of the Atlantic. pic.twitter.com/4KphGkuhaw
— EarthScope Consortium (@EarthScope_sci) June 15, 2023
Compressive stresses occur at convergent plate boundaries where two plates move toward each other. If two continental plates collide, they produce a broad uplift. For ocean-continent collision, most of the faults occur within the overlying plate as it is compressed and buckles. pic.twitter.com/jEsOtq3L7i
— EarthScope Consortium (@EarthScope_sci) April 5, 2023
Shear stress occurs at transform boundaries where two plates slide horizontally past each other with. Most transform faults are found in the ocean basin where they connect offsets in the mid-ocean ridges, and they can also connect a spreading ridge with a subduction zone. pic.twitter.com/Tx9vNBCiwE
— EarthScope Consortium (@EarthScope_sci) April 5, 2023
Relative to Europe, GPS stations in eastern Iceland show motion to the east, while GPS stations in western Iceland show motion to the west. Why? Iceland lies above a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent plate boundary where the Eurasian and North American plates move away from each other pic.twitter.com/kTi8qycLGe
— EarthScope Consortium (@EarthScope_sci) November 16, 2023
Our Earth shakes a lot in a year! This animation shows nearly 20,000 earthquakes above a magnitude 3 that were recorded throughout 2023. pic.twitter.com/eatEXqDwxN
— EarthScope Consortium (@EarthScope_sci) January 4, 2024
