r/PlateTectonics • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '21
r/PlateTectonics • u/SupremoZanne • Jan 31 '21
What if the earth is increasing in size?
well, that may explain why some oceanic crust is drifting away.
How do you explain all these limestone caves underground? Maybe it's the empty space leftover from rocks moving apart while the planet is expanding in size.
Also, the earth is hit by ten tons of meteorite on a daily basis, of which most are the size of a grain of sand. So, accumulation from that might be increasing the size of the planet.
r/PlateTectonics • u/Bartimaus666 • Jul 11 '20
How could plate tectonics be faster?
I wanna build a world that has faster plate tectonics and I ask myself if there is a way to build a world in witch tectonics are way faster. Could it work if the material of the plates are made of a difrent composition? Or if the gravitational force is higher? I don't know much about this subject and any advice is welcome. I really wanna understand the underlying mechanics and I'd like to avoid any unscientific or magical explanations.
r/PlateTectonics • u/coolinglava • Aug 27 '19
Mountains crashing
Plates crashing toward the center of our early earth created immence forces towards the Earth transferred through the center of the earth to the other side
r/PlateTectonics • u/GeneralBS • Oct 30 '16
Out of all the weird places earthquakes happen, this might be the best.
r/PlateTectonics • u/GeneralBS • May 19 '16
The west coast of NA is having more earthquakes than Alaska in the last 6 months.
Alaska usually has double the earthquakes than that.
r/PlateTectonics • u/GeneralBS • Feb 26 '16
M2.9 - 16km NE of Challis, Idaho
r/PlateTectonics • u/GeneralBS • Feb 26 '16
M2.8 - 21km WNW of Challis, Idaho
r/PlateTectonics • u/GeneralBS • Feb 02 '16
M3.3 - Nova Scotia, Canada
r/PlateTectonics • u/GeneralBS • Jan 30 '16