I hope I'm not the only one impressed by the model while disturbed by its inaccuracy of its limitations.
40 0 ReplyAll the way to outer core. That's some crusty crust.
6 0 ReplyBut that part is true. We see these huge seismic anomalies at the core-mantle boundary that many think is a "slab graveyard" (e.g. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009396 ).
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...should have put the mantle in rolls.
5 0 ReplyFlat earth confirmed
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A layered stack of about 8 towels is a great way to visualise a convergent-boundary of two tectonic plates.
Pushing at either end of the towel stack gives a basic simulation of the orogeny that produces mountain ranges, and shows the strata-deformation that occurs.
8 0 ReplyGood.
Now repeat it with an ingrown nail.
8 0 ReplyDeep time has seen horrors beyond all comprehension.
14 0 ReplyEven partially resorbed earth crust/ ingrown nail? Maybe. :)
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Slipping into those DMs (Deep Mantle)
6 0 ReplyWhat are you doing step-crust?
5 0 ReplyIf that blue towel is wet maybe you'll find some peridotite.
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