orgasmic tectonism
May 24, 2026 at 8:59 AM
orgasmic tectonism
“AI is both a productivity boost and a creativity boost.” 🤖🏙️
Patrik Schumacher explains how Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI to hybridise styles and train models in the logic of tectonism.
Listen to E25 now. 🎧
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#TalkingPlace #AI #Architecture #Tectonism
Patrik Schumacher explains how Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI to hybridise styles and train models in the logic of tectonism.
Listen to E25 now. 🎧
YouTube: https://f.mtr.cool/szdkkpnyvt
#TalkingPlace #AI #Architecture #Tectonism
May 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
“AI is both a productivity boost and a creativity boost.” 🤖🏙️
Patrik Schumacher explains how Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI to hybridise styles and train models in the logic of tectonism.
Listen to E25 now. 🎧
YouTube: https://f.mtr.cool/szdkkpnyvt
#TalkingPlace #AI #Architecture #Tectonism
Patrik Schumacher explains how Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI to hybridise styles and train models in the logic of tectonism.
Listen to E25 now. 🎧
YouTube: https://f.mtr.cool/szdkkpnyvt
#TalkingPlace #AI #Architecture #Tectonism
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
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
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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...
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.
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)
True, dat. Or ongoing tectonism and clearly related landforms, or seriously deep and rugged canyons. The topographic relief of that state is 1105 feet. That of the area within five miles of my town alone is nearly double that. But I still wish I knew SE Ohio geology better.
March 28, 2026 at 12:05 AM
True, dat. Or ongoing tectonism and clearly related landforms, or seriously deep and rugged canyons. The topographic relief of that state is 1105 feet. That of the area within five miles of my town alone is nearly double that. But I still wish I knew SE Ohio geology better.
The Great Unconformity is arguably the most iconic but enigmatic gap in Earth’s stratigraphic record
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evidence erosion below the unconformity was protracted in North China.
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evidence erosion below the unconformity was protracted in North China.
March 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The Great Unconformity is arguably the most iconic but enigmatic gap in Earth’s stratigraphic record
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evidence erosion below the unconformity was protracted in North China.
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evidence erosion below the unconformity was protracted in North China.
📣 New paper by EF Nicolas Flament and Colin Murray-Wallace on shoreline successions in SE Australia 🌏 during the last interglacial period ~130–115 thousand years ago. 🚩Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Last Interglacial shoreline successions in southeastern Australia: A framework for identifying a waning mantle upwelling, neotectonic movements and sea-level change
Relict shoreline successions are critically important for investigations of recent tectonism, as they are commonly amenable to dating and may provide …
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March 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
📣 New paper by EF Nicolas Flament and Colin Murray-Wallace on shoreline successions in SE Australia 🌏 during the last interglacial period ~130–115 thousand years ago. 🚩Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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....
“The most pronounced erosion evident in both the thermochronologic record and geochemical indicators of continental weathering is shown to correspond with development of Earth’s first true supercontinent.”
Tectonism, rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation, is responsible for the Great Unconformity
Tectonism, rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation, is responsible for the Great Unconformity
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
March 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
“The most pronounced erosion evident in both the thermochronologic record and geochemical indicators of continental weathering is shown to correspond with development of Earth’s first true supercontinent.”
Tectonism, rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation, is responsible for the Great Unconformity
Tectonism, rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation, is responsible for the Great Unconformity
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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March 5, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity" cool title
The extreme unevenness in the completeness of the stratigraphic, and by implication fossil, record is formed by many processes. Apparently the most profound gap— the Great Unconformity, is driven by tectonics.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
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🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
March 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
"Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity" cool title
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
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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February 27, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity
PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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February 26, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity
PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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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...
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...
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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
February 25, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
NASPA Word of the Day: TONETICS n the phonetic study of tone in language. Anagram:stenotic. Anahooks:coRnetist notcHiest stocKinet tAconites tectoniCs tectonisM. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
NASPA Word of the Day: TONETICS n the phonetic study of tone in language. Anagram:stenotic. Anahooks:coRnetist notcHiest stocKinet tAconites tectoniCs tectonisM. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl
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:
I'll always admit to having a soft-spot for the Sevier orogeny, so #7 this year is just a classic example of fold-thrust tectonism from SW Montana! Brennan's Geologic map of the Home Park Ranch 7.5' quadrangle, southwestern Montana, MT BMG GM 109
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'll always admit to having a soft-spot for the Sevier orogeny, so #7 this year is just a classic example of fold-thrust tectonism from SW Montana! Brennan's Geologic map of the Home Park Ranch 7.5' quadrangle, southwestern Montana, MT BMG GM 109
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!