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Nice picture.
I feel like it's kind of misleading to say "earth is tearing its self apart" when talking about a subduction zone. Yeah I mean the subducting plate faulting as its pulled down is breaking.. but its still a compressive collision. If you crammed two things together and one of the things cracked, saying its tearing its self apart would be a real.. stretch.
Nic Zentner is a great lecturer on the unique geology of the Pacific Northwest. He has a lot of interesting material on YT. Here is the link to his academic webpage:
https://www.cwu.edu/about/directory/geological-sciences/nico...
Vancouver Island is a special place.
This is such a nice topic for visualisations, but not a single drawing or visual explanation. That’s unfortunate. The main pic is impressive but without context it’s disappointing a bit
The main pic is AI generated, according to the credit caption.
The main pict is generated by AI and a misleading hallucination, or as we use to call it "totally wrong".
I'm not a geologist, so I have to take a few guess to read the main paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady8347
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When the slab in the subsection one goes under another slab, it does not get destroyed, but goes down quite intact. But from time to time (every few million years?) a part split. See figure 8 D. So the split is already covered with a huge layer of soil (like 10kn?) and above that a swallow sea (like .1km). Note also that they split is a very different way
So the main graphic of the press article is wrong in many aspects.
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or as we use to call it artist rendering. Artistic visualizations have been part of articles long before generative AI came along.
I agree, a lot of them were horrible too.
The main pic makes absolutely zero sense. The sides are tilted upwards, so clearly they were moving towards each other. But there's a big gap, so clearly they're moving away from each other. I was mentally sketching out a scenario where it was first one then the other, until I realized it was just AI slop.
subduction zone. a million years buried a mile underground, pulverized by lava and rocks, will erase literally any crime.
It would be a shame if your car ended up in the the subduction zone
This article is AI.
Yes, it's an AI rewording of the LSU press release (credited at the bottom): https://www.lsu.edu/science/news/2025/09/shuck-sci-adv.php
Can we change the link to point there instead?
I've seen this movie, we need start preparing our Jaeger program with all of this AI capital floating around.