There is a lot of tectonic activity within a plate based on much the same forces that exit between plates.
There is a lot of tectonic activity within a plate based on much the same forces that exit between plates.
I once had a continental collision. It destroyed my Honda.
Why is Mount Logan its own region?
Nonsense!! It happened 6000 years ago at the earliest.
At one very early point in the evolution of earths crust, there were many granite “islands” which converged and collided with each other to form today’s plates which are, in turn, colliding with each other and rifting apart.
Interesting
Is it OK to post pictures of Tetons?
I thought the Himalayas were the result of a subduction between the Indian subcontinent and the Asian mainland. Are the Tetons a similar subduction range?
Just a case of GAIA getting her rocks off.
It’s no wonder that I failed Stratigraphy. However, I did find a new subspecies of Conodont. Also found a Bellumnitella at the Hechinger site, Landover, Md. along with a small dinosaur knuckle (My daughter actually find that. I found the Mosasaur tooth and vertebrae).
Graptolites out near Route 81 near Luray Caverns. Kids loved them.
Just bragging. Oh, dozens of baseball and softball-sized Culcullaea Gigantia across from the Hechinger site, on Central Avenue (Giant clamshells/molds to you amateurs). Make great gifts and paperweights. About 60 million years old (somewhere between the Paleocene and the Eocene).
How about radioactive Glauconitic sands from the Vincetown Formation in New Jersey? Full of Bryozoa and Foraminarifera (spelling is way off). Little guys in shallow seas. About 120 Million years old. Kinda cute.
So the Tetons have been slapping together, is that what we are saying???