Thank you!...... this is the one of the most amazing and easiest to understand demonstration showing tectonic plates, it out does all of the videos that I've watched so far
Hi, thanx a lot for the experiment. Can you please help me with the making of the sand box. My lab doesn't have it and I would like to make one of my own.
Ricardo Marte there are reasonable similarities between the model and the processes that formed and filled the Vienna Basin. While the model does illustrate the general concept of crustal extension producing accommodation space to be filled by sediment, there are many shortcomings. The Vienna Basin is transtensional, so the rigid blocks in the video should be angled with respect to the direction of extension. The flat floor of the model rig prevents illustration of processes in the pre-rift and basement rocks of the crust (master detachment fault formation, for example) that are key to basin development. The model also does not use a material to represent basement (meaning lower crustal metamorphic or plutonic rocks) or structured pre-rift units. The episodic nature of marginal erosion and deposition in the model should also be constant during extension. I also don't think the Vienna Basin has experienced any inversion after its tensional development; if it has, it is very minor. All that being said, the final basin fill in the model exhibits the tilted "domino block" structure that is common to most interpretations of Vienna Basin fill. The addition and faulting of syn-rift strata is also a reasonable representation of the process. The Vienna Basin is also assymmetric in the sense that one end contains more growth sediment than the other, as occurs against the retracting block in the model. A Google Search for "Vienna Basin" will show you numerous cross section interpretations that will bear some resemblance to the model. Thanks for your question!
There is much published on the episodic nature of the rock record. Sequence stratigraphy. But, all of this could have happened a lot faster than quietist might say...
Thank you!...... this is the one of the most amazing and easiest to understand demonstration showing tectonic plates, it out does all of the videos that I've watched so far
Awesome demonstration. It's amazing how clear these models make these tectonic processes.
agree
without opening book,this has explained the concept. Thank you prof.
happy that you found it useful!
Fantastic model! Very cool to see the thrust fault develop at 2:07.
Great explanation
Brilliantly clear and well-conceived.
Awesome. Very easy to understand. I will sugest this video to some Geology teachers I know.
Awesome work and explication!, thank´s from México.
Thank you, really helpful!
really a great explanation video
Excellent! Very helpful :D :D
Great help for my exam in New Zealand. Thank you.
+Benjamin Campbell I'm glad it helped you out! What was your exam (what course)?
+TheGeoModels Bs majoring in Earth Sciences at the university of Waikato, New Zealand 👍🏼
outstanding
LOVE LOVE THIS!!!
Hi, thanx a lot for the experiment. Can you please help me with the making of the sand box. My lab doesn't have it and I would like to make one of my own.
I loved it
super cool
The figure in Mann and Burke 1990, first appeared in Mann Draper & Burke 1985
Very interesting demonstration
Thanks! Hope to have a new representation of this type of process up soon!
Well done.
Beautiful
Is the formation principle for the Vienna Basin in Austria the same?
Ricardo Marte there are reasonable similarities between the model and the processes that formed and filled the Vienna Basin. While the model does illustrate the general concept of crustal extension producing accommodation space to be filled by sediment, there are many shortcomings. The Vienna Basin is transtensional, so the rigid blocks in the video should be angled with respect to the direction of extension. The flat floor of the model rig prevents illustration of processes in the pre-rift and basement rocks of the crust (master detachment fault formation, for example) that are key to basin development. The model also does not use a material to represent basement (meaning lower crustal metamorphic or plutonic rocks) or structured pre-rift units. The episodic nature of marginal erosion and deposition in the model should also be constant during extension. I also don't think the Vienna Basin has experienced any inversion after its tensional development; if it has, it is very minor.
All that being said, the final basin fill in the model exhibits the tilted "domino block" structure that is common to most interpretations of Vienna Basin fill. The addition and faulting of syn-rift strata is also a reasonable representation of the process. The Vienna Basin is also assymmetric in the sense that one end contains more growth sediment than the other, as occurs against the retracting block in the model. A Google Search for "Vienna Basin" will show you numerous cross section interpretations that will bear some resemblance to the model.
Thanks for your question!
Thanks m8
We record the same features in the subsurface of Gulf of Suez except there is no inversion
Connecticut Valley Pangea rift formation
that was so cool :)
Thank you! We hope to try this model again with a slightly different setup in the near future. Glad you enjoyed it.
There is much published on the episodic nature of the rock record. Sequence stratigraphy. But, all of this could have happened a lot faster than quietist might say...
Great explanation