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  1. Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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    scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical media article
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    doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
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    oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ge <-- technical description of a geoid
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    [theories abound]
    "... KEY POINTS
    • Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
    • Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
    • These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

  2. Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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    scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical media article
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
    --
    oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ge <-- technical description of a geoid
    --
    [theories abound]
    "... KEY POINTS
    • Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
    • Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
    • These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

  3. Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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    scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical media article
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
    --
    oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ge <-- technical description of a geoid
    --
    [theories abound]
    "... KEY POINTS
    • Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
    • Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
    • These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

  4. Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
    --
    scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical media article
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
    --
    oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ge <-- technical description of a geoid
    --
    [theories abound]
    "... KEY POINTS
    • Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
    • Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
    • These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

  5. Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
    --
    scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical media article
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
    --
    oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ge <-- technical description of a geoid
    --
    [theories abound]
    "... KEY POINTS
    • Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
    • Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
    • These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”

  6. "Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the #SagaingFault.

    This is where the Indian #tectonicplate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of #SoutheastAsia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California.

    "The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means #earthquakes can rupture over large areas — and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the #earthquake."

    manilatimes.net/2025/03/29/wor

  7. "Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the #SagaingFault.

    This is where the Indian #tectonicplate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of #SoutheastAsia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California.

    "The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means #earthquakes can rupture over large areas — and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the #earthquake."

    manilatimes.net/2025/03/29/wor

  8. "Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the .

    This is where the Indian , to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California.

    "The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means can rupture over large areas — and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the ."

    manilatimes.net/2025/03/29/wor

  9. "Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the #SagaingFault.

    This is where the Indian #tectonicplate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of #SoutheastAsia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California.

    "The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means #earthquakes can rupture over large areas — and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the #earthquake."

    manilatimes.net/2025/03/29/wor

  10. "Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the #SagaingFault.

    This is where the Indian #tectonicplate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of #SoutheastAsia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California.

    "The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometres (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means #earthquakes can rupture over large areas — and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the #earthquake."

    manilatimes.net/2025/03/29/wor

  11. @lithospheric
    That rocks! AT first I thought you'd written #Vulcan #Progeny and I wondered if #Spock's #PonFar had therefore been successful? Then I wiki'd & found: "the #VariscanOrogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between #Euramerica #Larussia & #Gondwana to form the supercontinent #Pangaea"--aka a massive pile-up on a #TectonicPlate expressway... #Cool #Rock&Roll #StarTrek #AnthonyNewley #GonnaBuildAMountain youtube.com/watch?v=v6ndwRieyo

  12. @lithospheric
    That rocks! AT first I thought you'd written #Vulcan #Progeny and I wondered if #Spock's #PonFar had therefore been successful? Then I wiki'd & found: "the #VariscanOrogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between #Euramerica #Larussia & #Gondwana to form the supercontinent #Pangaea"--aka a massive pile-up on a #TectonicPlate expressway... #Cool #Rock&Roll #StarTrek #AnthonyNewley #GonnaBuildAMountain youtube.com/watch?v=v6ndwRieyo

  13. @lithospheric
    That rocks! AT first I thought you'd written #Vulcan #Progeny and I wondered if #Spock's #PonFar had therefore been successful? Then I wiki'd & found: "the #VariscanOrogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between #Euramerica #Larussia & #Gondwana to form the supercontinent #Pangaea"--aka a massive pile-up on a #TectonicPlate expressway... #Cool #Rock&Roll #StarTrek #AnthonyNewley #GonnaBuildAMountain youtube.com/watch?v=v6ndwRieyo

  14. @lithospheric
    That rocks! AT first I thought you'd written #Vulcan #Progeny and I wondered if #Spock's #PonFar had therefore been successful? Then I wiki'd & found: "the #VariscanOrogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between #Euramerica #Larussia & #Gondwana to form the supercontinent #Pangaea"--aka a massive pile-up on a #TectonicPlate expressway... #Cool #Rock&Roll #StarTrek #AnthonyNewley #GonnaBuildAMountain youtube.com/watch?v=v6ndwRieyo

  15. @lithospheric
    That rocks! AT first I thought you'd written #Vulcan #Progeny and I wondered if #Spock's #PonFar had therefore been successful? Then I wiki'd & found: "the #VariscanOrogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between #Euramerica #Larussia & #Gondwana to form the supercontinent #Pangaea"--aka a massive pile-up on a #TectonicPlate expressway... #Cool #Rock&Roll #StarTrek #AnthonyNewley #GonnaBuildAMountain youtube.com/watch?v=v6ndwRieyo