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Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

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Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

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Post by defrost »

qwerty_clicks wrote: post #40

As a geologist with 2 degrees and a lot of passion in the subject, I’ve never heard of lithospheric drip related to orogenic dips until now, but I love it and kick myself for not questioning the over simplicity of typical thought around lower crust processes enough.

As an exploration geophyicist who 1/ posted this, and 2/ can bang rocks together, I wonder if you've heard of Continental Drip, Ormonde de Kay, 1973.

It introduces an entire other level of simplistic thought.

The Südpolarfluchtkraft is out there.

Re: Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

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Post by amelius »

stubish wrote: post #37
amelius wrote: post #32

A time lapse video would have been great.

Unfortunately the camera was lost to flooding about 2.5m years ago, so the only visual records are some rock art.

The relevant photons are still flying through space. And with a time lapse video of this scale, clouds are not a problem.

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Post by jamincan »

markbnj wrote: post #7

For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).

And if you manage to wade through that tome, Myron Cook's Youtube channel [1] is an excellent place to continue your exploration of geology.

1. https://www.youtube.com/@myroncook

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Post by fuzzfactor »

amelius wrote: post #42
stubish wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the camera was lost to flooding about 2.5m years ago, so the only visual records are some rock art.

The relevant photons are still flying through space. And with a time lapse video of this scale, clouds are not a problem.

The replacement camera is rocketing out there right now, faster than the speed of light to catch up with those photons.

That'll bring those pictures back, lickety-split.

Too bad it had to go back in time to do so, so it might not be overnight :\

I love an advanced civilization anyway, I'll be getting the popcorn ready ;)

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Post by indoordin0saur »

dylan604 wrote: post #23
indoordin0saur wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having recently gotten into watching documentaries or youtube videos of accounts of mountaineering expeditions it's amazing how lazy content creators, film makers and journalists can be when choosing what images or videos to show. You'll get something about climbing a mountain in the Andes and keep getting shown completely misleading pictures of Himalayan mountains, etc.

The content you create is only as good as the stock footage you have available to you. It's not like these people are trekking to the locations to acquire their own content. If you search in stock libraries for mountaineering in the Andes, and it only brings you footage from the Himalayas you're just going to use it.

I'd say this is more a symptom of the content creator knowing nothing about the subject matter they are presenting on. Which would be fine, except that as someone presenting the content they usually represent themselves as knowledgeable about the subject matter material. Showing stock footage of an Andean mountain when the foliage in the foreground is clearly shows that it is somewhere in the sub-arctic (spruce trees and lupine native to Alaska for example) is total idiocy.
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