Exhuming my thesis, part III

Update 3: follow here for the last post closing the series with AI to the rescue.

Update 2: added an intriguing speculation on the adjacent Sudbury Nickel Irruptive

Update 1: follow-on post here on a series revisiting maps or posting off-web.

Following on Parts I & II here & here, here is an article on the breakup of Nuna Province in current N China: it gives new impetus to plate tectonics around 1.5GA - see Part II for another example -  such dynamic processes were proposed in my thesis paper over 40 yrs. ago here, where I applied recent plate dynamics to the Proterozoic of Southern Province of N Ontario Canada of similar age and make-up of Nuna Province. I looked at it from a structural geologic perspective, using intrusives cross-cutting relationships as date markers. The new paper actually dated similar intrusives in present day N China.

More maps, in 3D now

Update 3: follow on next post "Even more maps, with a twist" here.

Update 2: found a textbook example of  "carving upstream" in this gorgeous video of the Uinta Mountains of Wyoming.

Update 1: more offshore canyons crowning Antarctica found with new digital terrain data and give us a beautiful map @ bottom.

This follows on the previous map story here. The next one is here for maps & here for geomorphology. 

My web footprint

Let me highlight the importance of the recent topic of AI my Community Interest Company delved into and I used in various forms shared in the last post here. Open this blog's  desktop version here, look at the stats at its right... and you'll see why the curve below spikes at far right here!

click to enlarge, original here