#Infomocracy (and State Tectonics, most directly)
Just amused myself getting a cached version of Wikipedia running on phone - I picked a version from 2010 to keep the file size manageable. But struck me as a project for someone to do publicly: a website version from say 2022, or whatever date and the angle is pre-AI tainted Wikipedia.
November 10, 2026 at 9:29 AM
#Infomocracy (and State Tectonics, most directly)
Yes, that was a plate tectonics/orogenesis joke.
November 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Yes, that was a plate tectonics/orogenesis joke.
Also Earth’s plate tectonics would pretty much palimpsest that impact within a few tens of million years, especially in the Hadean when everything was hyperactive and zoomy.
November 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Also Earth’s plate tectonics would pretty much palimpsest that impact within a few tens of million years, especially in the Hadean when everything was hyperactive and zoomy.
An ancient crustal fingerprint disappears from Earth's rock record about 2.5 billion years ago—a marker of the transition toward modern plate tectonics.
Ancient rocks reveal when Earth's tectonic engine 'switched on'
Scientists have identified a major turning point in Earth's geological history, when the processes shaping the planet's crust changed dramatically and began to resemble the plate tectonics we see today—about 2.5 billion years ago.
phys.org
November 11, 2026 at 12:10 AM
An ancient crustal fingerprint disappears from Earth's rock record about 2.5 billion years ago—a marker of the transition toward modern plate tectonics.
Small correction on plate tectonics and mantle circulation bit at ~21 minutes: there's no "hot" mantle rising to drive things--Earth's convection is top down, it's driven entirely by cold material sinking at subduction zones and "normal" mantle passively rising to fill in.
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November 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Small correction on plate tectonics and mantle circulation bit at ~21 minutes: there's no "hot" mantle rising to drive things--Earth's convection is top down, it's driven entirely by cold material sinking at subduction zones and "normal" mantle passively rising to fill in.
In this #webinar, Assistant Professor João Duarte, President of the EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division, will discuss the current state of the plate tectonics theory and how we got here.
📅 Thursday, 19 November 2026 at 16:00 CET
🔗: egu.eu/2O1GXR
📸: Alexandra Kushnir on imaggeo.egu.eu
📅 Thursday, 19 November 2026 at 16:00 CET
🔗: egu.eu/2O1GXR
📸: Alexandra Kushnir on imaggeo.egu.eu
November 9, 2026 at 9:27 AM
In this #webinar, Assistant Professor João Duarte, President of the EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division, will discuss the current state of the plate tectonics theory and how we got here.
📅 Thursday, 19 November 2026 at 16:00 CET
🔗: egu.eu/2O1GXR
📸: Alexandra Kushnir on imaggeo.egu.eu
📅 Thursday, 19 November 2026 at 16:00 CET
🔗: egu.eu/2O1GXR
📸: Alexandra Kushnir on imaggeo.egu.eu
So right! Earth wouldn't be habitable without plate tectonics.
November 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
So right! Earth wouldn't be habitable without plate tectonics.
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November 10, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Huge thanks to coauthors Caden Howlett, Peter DeCelles, Barbara Carrapa, Lucas Fennell, Kaustubh Thirumalai (@carbon8.bsky.social) , Veleda Müller, & Lucas Lothari.
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Don't make me explain why plate tectonics mean close ties between Iceland and Canada.
November 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Don't make me explain why plate tectonics mean close ties between Iceland and Canada.
over + 2 C will be too much and will cause a lot of disasters, not only tectonics
November 9, 2026 at 7:00 AM
over + 2 C will be too much and will cause a lot of disasters, not only tectonics
Depends. Usually we say it needs to have been created by either volcanism or tectonics, but then also have a certain amount of prominence, and then there's a fight while the reasonable geologists decamp to the pub.
November 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Depends. Usually we say it needs to have been created by either volcanism or tectonics, but then also have a certain amount of prominence, and then there's a fight while the reasonable geologists decamp to the pub.
Stop Plate Tectonics!
November 9, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Stop Plate Tectonics!
💯Love it! And don’t forget plate tectonics!
November 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
💯Love it! And don’t forget plate tectonics!
Minor thing, but something that people who study subduction zones (and more generally, geophysicists) have been pushing back on for *years* at this point due to the ideas of like one guy in the early years of plate tectonics somehow getting embedded deeply in pop science and K12 textbooks.
November 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Minor thing, but something that people who study subduction zones (and more generally, geophysicists) have been pushing back on for *years* at this point due to the ideas of like one guy in the early years of plate tectonics somehow getting embedded deeply in pop science and K12 textbooks.
Sis bandes de Lleida i tres del vallès.
El que confirma la meva teoria que el vallès és una part de Lleida que va ser deplaçada pels moviments tectònics.
Va ser ahir.
feu per escoltar TOTES les BANDES
perquè són totes EXTRAORDINÀRIES.
El que confirma la meva teoria que el vallès és una part de Lleida que va ser deplaçada pels moviments tectònics.
Va ser ahir.
feu per escoltar TOTES les BANDES
perquè són totes EXTRAORDINÀRIES.
November 8, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Sis bandes de Lleida i tres del vallès.
El que confirma la meva teoria que el vallès és una part de Lleida que va ser deplaçada pels moviments tectònics.
Va ser ahir.
feu per escoltar TOTES les BANDES
perquè són totes EXTRAORDINÀRIES.
El que confirma la meva teoria que el vallès és una part de Lleida que va ser deplaçada pels moviments tectònics.
Va ser ahir.
feu per escoltar TOTES les BANDES
perquè són totes EXTRAORDINÀRIES.
And a great example in our memory would be Continental Drift in to Plate Tectonics, a change that is barely older than I am
November 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
And a great example in our memory would be Continental Drift in to Plate Tectonics, a change that is barely older than I am
Moon may have squeezed Earth’s first continents into existence
As Earth spun down, bulging gave way to a sphere, driving the formation of continental crust
Tectonics on Early Earth Driven by Earth's Changing Shape During Tidal Recession of the Moon🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
As Earth spun down, bulging gave way to a sphere, driving the formation of continental crust
Tectonics on Early Earth Driven by Earth's Changing Shape During Tidal Recession of the Moon🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
November 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Moon may have squeezed Earth’s first continents into existence
As Earth spun down, bulging gave way to a sphere, driving the formation of continental crust
Tectonics on Early Earth Driven by Earth's Changing Shape During Tidal Recession of the Moon🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
As Earth spun down, bulging gave way to a sphere, driving the formation of continental crust
Tectonics on Early Earth Driven by Earth's Changing Shape During Tidal Recession of the Moon🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Earth is not unique in its biogeochemical composition: Earth-like exoplanets may be common in the known-Universe. Rocks with oxidation like those on Earth could have similar plate tectonics & potential for a magnetic field; essential conditions for primitive life to evolve...
November 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The Earth is not unique in its biogeochemical composition: Earth-like exoplanets may be common in the known-Universe. Rocks with oxidation like those on Earth could have similar plate tectonics & potential for a magnetic field; essential conditions for primitive life to evolve...
Ed Brook on Antarctica’s Oldest Ice 🧪⚒️❄️
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November 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Ed Brook on Antarctica’s Oldest Ice 🧪⚒️❄️
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Hegseth’s face is shifting in the strangest way. His forehead looks like it’s slowly crashing into his chin. Every day it pushes further down into his eyes. He’ll be blind soon. It’s facial plate tectonics.
November 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Hegseth’s face is shifting in the strangest way. His forehead looks like it’s slowly crashing into his chin. Every day it pushes further down into his eyes. He’ll be blind soon. It’s facial plate tectonics.
Join the editors of AGU's 'Global Tectonics' book series as they discuss the newly released 'Strike-Slip Tectonics: Major Fault Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia' and its place within the broader framework of global tectonic processes.
🔗 bit.ly/4BxS7rs
#EarthScience #Geology #AGUPubs
🔗 bit.ly/4BxS7rs
#EarthScience #Geology #AGUPubs
November 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Join the editors of AGU's 'Global Tectonics' book series as they discuss the newly released 'Strike-Slip Tectonics: Major Fault Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia' and its place within the broader framework of global tectonic processes.
🔗 bit.ly/4BxS7rs
#EarthScience #Geology #AGUPubs
🔗 bit.ly/4BxS7rs
#EarthScience #Geology #AGUPubs
Fascinating stuff. Tall poppy tectonics.
Earth's rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a billion years. Scientists finally know what happened to it theconversation.com/earths-rocks...
Earth’s rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a billion years. We finally know where it went
The Great Unconformity is a mysterious gap of hundreds of millions of years in Earth’s geological history – and new research may have finally explained it.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Fascinating stuff. Tall poppy tectonics.
A geologically similar chain of islands formed the northern Pacific NW coast. One point in deep time western Idaho was the N Am coastline. (Plate tectonics is one of my favorites :) Lava tubes in Eastern Or are fun to explore.
November 11, 2026 at 1:11 PM
A geologically similar chain of islands formed the northern Pacific NW coast. One point in deep time western Idaho was the N Am coastline. (Plate tectonics is one of my favorites :) Lava tubes in Eastern Or are fun to explore.