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tracerbulletx 3 hours ago [-]
I feel like it's kind of misleading to say "earth is tearing its self apart" when talking about a subduction zone. Yeah I mean the subducting plate faulting as its pulled down is breaking.. but its still a compressive collision. If you crammed two things together and one of the things cracked, saying its tearing its self apart would be a real.. stretch.
jschveibinz 3 hours ago [-]
Nic Zentner is a great lecturer on the unique geology of the Pacific Northwest. He has a lot of interesting material on YT. Here is the link to his academic webpage:
This is such a nice topic for visualisations, but not a single drawing or visual explanation. That’s unfortunate. The main pic is impressive but without context it’s disappointing a bit
gus_massa 2 hours ago [-]
The main pict is generated by AI and a misleading hallucination, or as we use to call it "totally wrong".
When the slab in the subsection one goes under another slab, it does not get destroyed, but goes down quite intact. But from time to time (every few million years?) a part split. See figure 8 D. So the split is already covered with a huge layer of soil (like 10kn?) and above that a swallow sea (like .1km). Note also that they split is a very different way
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Press Research
So the main graphic of the press article is wrong in many aspects.
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dylan604 2 hours ago [-]
or as we use to call it artist rendering. Artistic visualizations have been part of articles long before generative AI came along.
gus_massa 1 hours ago [-]
I agree, a lot of them were horrible too.
margalabargala 2 hours ago [-]
The main pic is AI generated, according to the credit caption.
sfink 2 hours ago [-]
The main pic makes absolutely zero sense. The sides are tilted upwards, so clearly they were moving towards each other. But there's a big gap, so clearly they're moving away from each other. I was mentally sketching out a scenario where it was first one then the other, until I realized it was just AI slop.
https://www.cwu.edu/about/directory/geological-sciences/nico...
I'm not a geologist, so I have to take a few guess to read the main paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady8347
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When the slab in the subsection one goes under another slab, it does not get destroyed, but goes down quite intact. But from time to time (every few million years?) a part split. See figure 8 D. So the split is already covered with a huge layer of soil (like 10kn?) and above that a swallow sea (like .1km). Note also that they split is a very different way
So the main graphic of the press article is wrong in many aspects.</IIUC>
Can we change the link to point there instead?
Nice picture.
It would be a shame if your car ended up in the the subduction zone