As we wrap up the year, I'm sharing an achievement I'm particularly proud of—we published the second book in our Comparative Planetology series!
Planetary Tectonism deals with the stresses that shape planets and the landforms that develop.
It follows Planetary Volcanism, published in 2021.
Planetary Tectonism deals with the stresses that shape planets and the landforms that develop.
It follows Planetary Volcanism, published in 2021.
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As we wrap up the year, I'm sharing an achievement I'm particularly proud of—we published the second book in our Comparative Planetology series!
Planetary Tectonism deals with the stresses that shape planets and the landforms that develop.
It follows Planetary Volcanism, published in 2021.
Planetary Tectonism deals with the stresses that shape planets and the landforms that develop.
It follows Planetary Volcanism, published in 2021.
Originalpaper hier: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread small grabens consistent with recent tectonism on Mercury - Nature Geoscience
The widespread occurrence of young grabens associated with larger compressional structures on Mercury’s surface suggests contractional tectonism has continued on the planet into geologically recent ti...
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Originalpaper hier: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper alert!
tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater.
Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit.
A thread:
tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater.
Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit.
A thread:
January 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
New paper alert!
tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater.
Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit.
A thread:
tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater.
Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit.
A thread:
Mercury keeps shrinking, visibly.
🔭🧪
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Widespread small grabens consistent with recent tectonism on Mercury - Nature Geoscience
The widespread occurrence of young grabens associated with larger compressional structures on Mercury’s surface suggests contractional tectonism has continued on the planet into geologically recent ti...
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Mercury keeps shrinking, visibly.
🔭🧪
🔭🧪
I'm so proud. The tectonism session has been consistently full the entire afternoon. People obviously do like their crust deformed! #LPSC2025
March 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'm so proud. The tectonism session has been consistently full the entire afternoon. People obviously do like their crust deformed! #LPSC2025
The Moon was tectonically active as recently as 770 million years ago - when life on Earth was unicellular.
🧪 #PlanetSci
🧪 #PlanetSci
Age dating, geometry and movement direction of a 411 km long lunar lobate scarp complex: Evidence of recent tectonism on the far side of the moon
Pristine lobate scarps on the Moon are young thrust faults that were formed in response to global contraction. These provide important insights into t…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 30, 2026 at 8:57 AM
The Moon was tectonically active as recently as 770 million years ago - when life on Earth was unicellular.
🧪 #PlanetSci
🧪 #PlanetSci
From the last few threads you've probably noticed that most lakes are somehow related to tectonism--generally true except at high northern & southern latitudes where the glacial-interglacial cycle dominates--ice sheets force the crust to bend downward, forming lakes after the ice melts away.
June 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
From the last few threads you've probably noticed that most lakes are somehow related to tectonism--generally true except at high northern & southern latitudes where the glacial-interglacial cycle dominates--ice sheets force the crust to bend downward, forming lakes after the ice melts away.
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity
(PNAS research article)
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
(PNAS research article)
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
March 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity
(PNAS research article)
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
(PNAS research article)
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Another chapter of my dissertation is out in @palaeo-electronica.bsky.social! We assembled a large ecomorphological dataset of Cenozoic rodents from Asia and compared diversity before and after major tectonic/climate events. Check it out! palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026...
Asian Rodentia ecological diversity
Multivariate analysis of ecological diversity in Asian Rodentia in the context of tectonism and environmental change
palaeo-electronica.org
April 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Another chapter of my dissertation is out in @palaeo-electronica.bsky.social! We assembled a large ecomorphological dataset of Cenozoic rodents from Asia and compared diversity before and after major tectonic/climate events. Check it out! palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026...
First up, a deceptively simple yet elegant map from Alabama. Beautiful, textbook thrust fault geometry from Byerly's "Geology of the Rodentown 7.5-minute quadrangle, DeKalb, Etowah, and Marshall Counties, Alabama" Geological Survey of Alabama Quad Series #82. Just a wonderful slice of tectonism!
December 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
First up, a deceptively simple yet elegant map from Alabama. Beautiful, textbook thrust fault geometry from Byerly's "Geology of the Rodentown 7.5-minute quadrangle, DeKalb, Etowah, and Marshall Counties, Alabama" Geological Survey of Alabama Quad Series #82. Just a wonderful slice of tectonism!
New argument against Snow Ball Earth having been the cause of the global Great Unconformaty where some erosive process stripped much of the pre-Cambrian sedimentary record away.
Instead, these authors suggest the formation of a supercontinent (Columbia) was the cause.
Instead, these authors suggest the formation of a supercontinent (Columbia) was the cause.
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS
The Great Unconformity (GUn)—a widely recognized discontinuity and associated gap
in the rock record between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks—represe...
www.pnas.org
April 19, 2026 at 11:27 PM
New argument against Snow Ball Earth having been the cause of the global Great Unconformaty where some erosive process stripped much of the pre-Cambrian sedimentary record away.
Instead, these authors suggest the formation of a supercontinent (Columbia) was the cause.
Instead, these authors suggest the formation of a supercontinent (Columbia) was the cause.
Tectonism session, noted by the chair, ended exactly on time! #LPSC2025
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media.tenor.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Tectonism session, noted by the chair, ended exactly on time! #LPSC2025
New publication by Nypaver et al can be found here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
A New Global Perspective on Recent Tectonism in the Lunar Maria
A New Global Perspective on Recent Tectonism in the Lunar Maria, Nypaver, C. A., Watters, T. R., Banks, M. E., Clark, J. D., Frueh, T.
iopscience.iop.org
February 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
New publication by Nypaver et al can be found here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
really rad study came out recently showing that carbon flux OUT of rocks during weathering may exceed carbon sequestration IN rocks during silicate weather, suggesting a long-term and large-scale influence of tectonism in global carbon cycles. super cool!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 6, 2023 at 1:17 PM
really rad study came out recently showing that carbon flux OUT of rocks during weathering may exceed carbon sequestration IN rocks during silicate weather, suggesting a long-term and large-scale influence of tectonism in global carbon cycles. super cool!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The Tectonism"
oil on canvas
『地殻変動』
油彩、キャンバス
145.5×112cm (F80)
2020
#TheTectonism #ContemporaryArt #OilOnCanvas #AbstractArt #ArtCollectors #ArtGallery #FineArtPainting #LargeScaleArt #ModernPainting #InternationalArtist #JapaneseArtist #ArtExhibition
oil on canvas
『地殻変動』
油彩、キャンバス
145.5×112cm (F80)
2020
#TheTectonism #ContemporaryArt #OilOnCanvas #AbstractArt #ArtCollectors #ArtGallery #FineArtPainting #LargeScaleArt #ModernPainting #InternationalArtist #JapaneseArtist #ArtExhibition
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"The Tectonism"
oil on canvas
『地殻変動』
油彩、キャンバス
145.5×112cm (F80)
2020
#TheTectonism #ContemporaryArt #OilOnCanvas #AbstractArt #ArtCollectors #ArtGallery #FineArtPainting #LargeScaleArt #ModernPainting #InternationalArtist #JapaneseArtist #ArtExhibition
oil on canvas
『地殻変動』
油彩、キャンバス
145.5×112cm (F80)
2020
#TheTectonism #ContemporaryArt #OilOnCanvas #AbstractArt #ArtCollectors #ArtGallery #FineArtPainting #LargeScaleArt #ModernPainting #InternationalArtist #JapaneseArtist #ArtExhibition
Isolated from the manipulating hand of life, the landscapes of these barren worlds are shaped only by the forces of nature: volcanism, erosion, tectonism, and gravity. The great mountains and valleys and windswept dunes that cover the surface preserve a rich geologic history of its formation.
March 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Isolated from the manipulating hand of life, the landscapes of these barren worlds are shaped only by the forces of nature: volcanism, erosion, tectonism, and gravity. The great mountains and valleys and windswept dunes that cover the surface preserve a rich geologic history of its formation.
Recent tectonism and hazards, OH MY! @cnet.com www.cnet.com/science/unde...
Moonquakes: Understanding the Moon's Tectonic Forces Could Protect Future Astronauts
Space agencies and companies looking to set up lunar outposts should build far away from seismic activity.
www.cnet.com
February 25, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Recent tectonism and hazards, OH MY! @cnet.com www.cnet.com/science/unde...
Four hour video about online plagiarism? You are like a little baby. How about 2+ hours about “tectonism” by Parametric Patrik instead. Why is he dressed like Falco? Not for me to say.
December 9, 2023 at 11:56 AM
Four hour video about online plagiarism? You are like a little baby. How about 2+ hours about “tectonism” by Parametric Patrik instead. Why is he dressed like Falco? Not for me to say.
This tectonism 1) buried the comparatively young Miocene sediments deep enough to get hot enough to form oil and gas and 2) formed structures (faults, anticline folds, also erosional surfaces and other truncations of different rock formations) that could trap the oil.
June 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This tectonism 1) buried the comparatively young Miocene sediments deep enough to get hot enough to form oil and gas and 2) formed structures (faults, anticline folds, also erosional surfaces and other truncations of different rock formations) that could trap the oil.
Having the tectonic maps in my head, every time I see those continent maps in geography textbooks, it is a bit irritating. There is an annoying bit of Eurocentrism in Europe being marked as a separate continent from Asia, but India not. ⚒️
(we can discuss Arabia and Apulia some other time)
(we can discuss Arabia and Apulia some other time)
April 1, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Having the tectonic maps in my head, every time I see those continent maps in geography textbooks, it is a bit irritating. There is an annoying bit of Eurocentrism in Europe being marked as a separate continent from Asia, but India not. ⚒️
(we can discuss Arabia and Apulia some other time)
(we can discuss Arabia and Apulia some other time)
Heading down the solar system gravity well to Mercury for the Tectonism Across the Solar System session. First up: Christian Klimczak on Global Extent of Impact Damage on Mercury from the Caloris Basin-Forming Event.
Abstract 2763: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025
Abstract 2763: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025
March 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Heading down the solar system gravity well to Mercury for the Tectonism Across the Solar System session. First up: Christian Klimczak on Global Extent of Impact Damage on Mercury from the Caloris Basin-Forming Event.
Abstract 2763: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025
Abstract 2763: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025
"Cambrian tectonism and sedimentary basins in Western Laurentia". So woke
February 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"Cambrian tectonism and sedimentary basins in Western Laurentia". So woke
The Great Unconformity, a pronounced break in the geological record—famously visible at the Grand Canyon—is likely due to deep erosion associated with tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” ice sheets, according to data from North China. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/ZHCJ50YmYZb
February 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The Great Unconformity, a pronounced break in the geological record—famously visible at the Grand Canyon—is likely due to deep erosion associated with tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” ice sheets, according to data from North China. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/ZHCJ50YmYZb