geology has the best words
“the craton”
“dripping lithosphere”
“subducting slab”
incredible work all around
“the craton”
“dripping lithosphere”
“subducting slab”
incredible work all around
Today in everything is a metaphor, geoscientists have discovered that the craton, the enormous stable rock that forms the core of North America, is eroding away www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…
www.jsg.utexas.edu
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
geology has the best words
“the craton”
“dripping lithosphere”
“subducting slab”
incredible work all around
“the craton”
“dripping lithosphere”
“subducting slab”
incredible work all around
skin thinner than the lithosphere at a mid-ocean ridge, amirite?
March 12, 2026 at 1:18 AM
skin thinner than the lithosphere at a mid-ocean ridge, amirite?
Me in today's 70s wallpaper shirt plugging Lithosphere book launch at Fullers.
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Me in today's 70s wallpaper shirt plugging Lithosphere book launch at Fullers.
Science in two lines. Plate tectonics. The motions of the lithosphere including the drifting apart of continents that couldn't commit to a relationship.
March 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Science in two lines. Plate tectonics. The motions of the lithosphere including the drifting apart of continents that couldn't commit to a relationship.
magma erupting from a volcano over thousands of years to create equilibrium in the lithosphere
call that a hot isostatic load
call that a hot isostatic load
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
magma erupting from a volcano over thousands of years to create equilibrium in the lithosphere
call that a hot isostatic load
call that a hot isostatic load
deep in the blender mines at the moment. i'm in the blender lithosphere. blender moho discontinuity, even
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
deep in the blender mines at the moment. i'm in the blender lithosphere. blender moho discontinuity, even
![Comic. [Large panel showing curve of Earth with upward opening curve below the surface labeled “constant curvature borehole.” Two smaller overlaid panels show (1) People next to machine on tracks with a tube pointed to the ground labeled “directional drilling rig” and (2) Earth with a ring embedded in it.] [caption] Good news: Geologists have decided that Earth is finally old enough to get its first lithosphere piercing!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibpl7phuxlhmuliw2lbkdjbzlwwyqbtknak33yd6ilfh2ihcxef4e)
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A chunk of the 1.7 billion year old North American lithospheric mantle lithosphere.
I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life
June 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
A chunk of the 1.7 billion year old North American lithospheric mantle lithosphere.
Faults have been distorting the planet's surface since the lithosphere first formed.
But with the ubiquity of cameras we're now finally able to record and study how these things form!
(Keep your eye on the grass in the background!)
But with the ubiquity of cameras we're now finally able to record and study how these things form!
(Keep your eye on the grass in the background!)
A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E.
Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
August 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Faults have been distorting the planet's surface since the lithosphere first formed.
But with the ubiquity of cameras we're now finally able to record and study how these things form!
(Keep your eye on the grass in the background!)
But with the ubiquity of cameras we're now finally able to record and study how these things form!
(Keep your eye on the grass in the background!)
who want to drip their lithosphere on my subducting slab until i suffer total collapse
Today in everything is a metaphor, geoscientists have discovered that the craton, the enormous stable rock that forms the core of North America, is eroding away www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…
www.jsg.utexas.edu
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
who want to drip their lithosphere on my subducting slab until i suffer total collapse
Rocks are like time capsules.
They reveal ancient life and climates. They’ll help us fight climate change.
They record the birth, life, and death of continents. They give us a framework for understanding lithosphere-biosphere dynamics at a global-scale.
They’re ace, frankly [2/2]
They reveal ancient life and climates. They’ll help us fight climate change.
They record the birth, life, and death of continents. They give us a framework for understanding lithosphere-biosphere dynamics at a global-scale.
They’re ace, frankly [2/2]
July 27, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Rocks are like time capsules.
They reveal ancient life and climates. They’ll help us fight climate change.
They record the birth, life, and death of continents. They give us a framework for understanding lithosphere-biosphere dynamics at a global-scale.
They’re ace, frankly [2/2]
They reveal ancient life and climates. They’ll help us fight climate change.
They record the birth, life, and death of continents. They give us a framework for understanding lithosphere-biosphere dynamics at a global-scale.
They’re ace, frankly [2/2]
Kinda amazing how we can model this. The tectonic movement of the world's continents from 1,000 million years ago until today
(by @nytimes)
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/s...
(by @nytimes)
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/s...
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Nature research paper: Melt focusing along lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary below Axial volcano
https://go.nature.com/4cIEdH2
https://go.nature.com/4cIEdH2
Melt focusing along lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary below Axial volcano - Nature
3D seismic reflection images of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath Axial volcano show a magma assimilation front that focuses magmatism towards the centre of the volcano, controlling both eruption and hydrothermal processes.
go.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nature research paper: Melt focusing along lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary below Axial volcano
https://go.nature.com/4cIEdH2
https://go.nature.com/4cIEdH2
But before you tremble in fear,
bear in mind there's nothing else here.
Lone and level sands stretch far away across the lithosphere.
I'm Ozymandias!
My glory will not pass
from the earth...
bear in mind there's nothing else here.
Lone and level sands stretch far away across the lithosphere.
I'm Ozymandias!
My glory will not pass
from the earth...
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
But before you tremble in fear,
bear in mind there's nothing else here.
Lone and level sands stretch far away across the lithosphere.
I'm Ozymandias!
My glory will not pass
from the earth...
bear in mind there's nothing else here.
Lone and level sands stretch far away across the lithosphere.
I'm Ozymandias!
My glory will not pass
from the earth...
smokin martian gumbo in the lithosphere with my galactic harem
August 27, 2024 at 10:29 PM
smokin martian gumbo in the lithosphere with my galactic harem
As @mitchelldickau.bsky.social notes, carbon released from the lithosphere (fossil fuels) cannot be compensated by carbon taken up in the biosphere (trees, plants, etc). Sadly this scam is widespread; it needs to be called out on every occasion.
1/3 Another study showing why nature-based carbon removal, in which the duration of removal may only be years to decades at worst, should not be used to offset fossil emissions.
Our latest research estimates that almost 40 percent of California’s forest offset buffer pool has been lost to wildfire. That’s roughly twice as many credits than have been set aside to address wildfire risks for the next 100 years. (1/4) 🧪https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17599
March 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
As @mitchelldickau.bsky.social notes, carbon released from the lithosphere (fossil fuels) cannot be compensated by carbon taken up in the biosphere (trees, plants, etc). Sadly this scam is widespread; it needs to be called out on every occasion.
I've always been fascinated by Earth's interior and how scientists have described their textures. I decided to make my own slice while at @newsela.bsky.social. #geology, #earth, #platetectonics
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March 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I've always been fascinated by Earth's interior and how scientists have described their textures. I decided to make my own slice while at @newsela.bsky.social. #geology, #earth, #platetectonics
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The roundtable kicks off with a dialogue between Jeremy Schneider (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) and Siyakha Mguni (University of Cape Town), exploring the ways in which the lithosphere can be read as an archive and a storyteller. doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Should the Lithosphere Tell Our Stories? | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Should the Lithosphere Tell Our Stories?
doi.org
September 23, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The roundtable kicks off with a dialogue between Jeremy Schneider (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) and Siyakha Mguni (University of Cape Town), exploring the ways in which the lithosphere can be read as an archive and a storyteller. doi.org/10.1017/S001...
tfw you realize there are things under the lithosphere
August 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM
tfw you realize there are things under the lithosphere
I have been tasked with sourcing Christmas potatoes from deep in the earth’s lithosphere.*
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December 24, 2024 at 6:54 AM
I have been tasked with sourcing Christmas potatoes from deep in the earth’s lithosphere.*
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The Kristi Noem photo-op before the emaciated prisoners was a lithosphere-level low.
I see why Trump thought the puppy shooter would be perfect for the job.
I see why Trump thought the puppy shooter would be perfect for the job.
April 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Kristi Noem photo-op before the emaciated prisoners was a lithosphere-level low.
I see why Trump thought the puppy shooter would be perfect for the job.
I see why Trump thought the puppy shooter would be perfect for the job.
February 21, 2024 at 2:14 AM
It's not called life unless it comes from the continental lithosphere region, otherwise it's called a sparkling etc etc
Proposed tweak to the Drake Equation suggests that continents and plate tectonics are needed for intelligent life to evolve. Seems pretty parochial to me! Continents may have been crucial for how life evolved here, but that doesn't mean there aren't other pathways.
gizmodo.com/drake-equati...
gizmodo.com/drake-equati...
Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Really Are Alone in the Galaxy
An adjustment to the famous Drake Equation could radically refine estimates of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.
gizmodo.com
June 7, 2024 at 12:52 PM
It's not called life unless it comes from the continental lithosphere region, otherwise it's called a sparkling etc etc
