vanhinsbergen.bsky.social
Geology - Plate tectonics - Mountain building - Paleogeography - Mantle motions - Paleomagnetism - Science communication - @GeoTdF.bsky.social - Professor at Utrecht University
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If we do not actively prevent it, it certainly will be.
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Hier, ander kaartje, zelfde punt.
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Dat weet ik, want wij leiden de mensen op die die problemen op kunnen lossen - en die problemen gaan steeds groter en complexer worden. Mijn punt is dat het van belang is dat we die mensen op blijven leiden, en dat staat onder druk.
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Da’s prima, Erik, maar de Kaspische zee wordt niet van de wereldzeeën gescheiden door een dijkje en een rijtje duinen, maar door gebergten. Dus daar is geen gevaar. Het gaat niet om het getalletje, maar het systeem, en daarin leiden we op. Dit kaartje schetst het probleem, en daar ging het me om.
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Sure, this map is a sketch, but 4 million people live below sea level in this country trusting we train experts to keep us safe. We better make sure we do that then, and not close the expert training centers.
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I was more talking about offshore-amalgamated juvenile terranes 😂. Have you ever during mapping picked up a rock, and thought 'my god, what a beautiful juvenile terrane I've got here, that must have been offshore amalgamated!'. Grey gneiss, I get. What is undifferentiated about that, not so much :D.
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We don’t really need American scientists. We’ve got plenty ourselves. We need research budget, just like you.
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Yeah, beautiful! The sheer number of ‘em there is inbelievable!
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The Bay of Antalya is so flat because it’s getting pulled down by a piece of plate that is still attached to that part of Turkey, but trying to break off. Like a fish pulling a bobber down. Antalya is built on young tufa, travertine depostits. Makes nice coastal cliffs!
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Er zijn altijd naschokken. Maar dit is niet de grote klap waar iedereen voor vreest, de schade valt mee.
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Those sutures I know, and they’re highly oblique and act as strike-slip faults since the late Cretaceous. Their motion is an order of magnitude larger than the shortening in the Cordillera. In that light, the chronology of the shortening may not be an important signal of regional tectonic motion.
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Is it the only structure in the Cordillera accommodating shortening in this time, or is it partitioned over multiple? Is the southward migrating strain taking over from structures that are ceasing at the same time?
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That looks like a really nice parcours! :D
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It’s a viewpoint in a quarry
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I see no vision in the decision. The VU decided to keep the parts that study climate change, but cut the expertise to actually do something about it. I hope we can save some of that expertise in out department. This is a terrible day for Dutch geoscience, and our position in European innovation 😢.
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We can start bij not building airports at a fucking plate boundary. The Mandeley international airport, built in 1999, lies 500 m from the Sagaing fault. So when the quake occurs, no help can fly in 😡
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I once saw a book with a fold on the cover and a lense cap for scale. On the back cover, the author stoof next to the lense cap, which was 6ft high 😃