Assembling Asia: Ring of Fire - tectonic journeys in East Asia
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
- Earthquakes tell a story of active tectonics across Asia - but the continent's tectonic history tracks back hundreds of millions of years. Find out how Asia has formed from a diverse range of continental blocks - a jigsaw puzzle built through cycles of rifting, drifting and collisions - and also find out how geologists make the these deductions. This is part of a series of short films that coincide with the BBC's fourth edition of Race Across The World - and curated in The Shear Zone Channel.
#geology #tectonics #palaeogeography #palaeomagnetism #ratw
Very nice video. Geology is so fascinating. Will watch more on your channel
Thanks so much for this and other videos you've posted. It's fascinating stuff; presented clearly in a straightforward way
During my first assignment in Southeast Asia, in Northern Thailand, in 1971, a similarity of the region’s parallel ranges and valleys to topography that was to be seen in Nevada and Western Utah’s Basin and Range Province was noticeable. In the intervening decades this similarity was occasionally a matter for random musing, but, not being a geologist, nor even a scientist of any particular sort, my mild curiosity about the matter went long unsatisfied. As the story of India’s headlong rush to its collision with the pre-existing Asia trickled into the consciousness of amateur geologists and geographers, and the related accounts of terrane accretion east of the Indian Ocean, the difference of the origins of those parallel mountain and valley structures in Southeast Asia from the stretching and faulting that produced the superficially similar topography in the western US became clear. Your further elaboration provides familiar Cambodian and Thai place names to attach to the accreted terranes.
An interesting personal historical reflection - thanks for sharing it!
Great video, learned a lot and was very fascinated !
great - glad you found the film useful.