Brian Horton (@andestectonics) 's Twitter Profile
Brian Horton

@andestectonics

Geology professor: Andes | tectonics | basins | geodynamics. @UTAustin, @UTGeophysics, @txgeosciences. #firstgen #NewMexican 🌶🇺🇸⛰

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Dr. Judith Hubbard (@judithgeology) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shallow #earthquakes in the #Andes: 🔸What's going on in #Ecuador?? 😬 🔸Hints at #SlipPartitioning in the north and south. 🥰 🔸Northern #Peru is awfully quiet! And also seem to have been cheated out of its rightful share of #volcanoes. 🤨 #tectoplot

Shallow #earthquakes in the #Andes:

🔸What's going on in #Ecuador?? 😬 
🔸Hints at #SlipPartitioning in the north and south. 🥰
🔸Northern #Peru is awfully quiet! And also seem to have been cheated out of its rightful share of #volcanoes. 🤨

#tectoplot
Oriol Ferrer (@oriolferrer8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fieldtrip doing a 2 days transect following the Ribargorçana river #Pyrenees with J.A Muñoz and K. McClay. Interesting discussions about salt-bearing fold-and-thrust belts. #fieldgeology #structuralgeology I.R. Geomodels - (UB) deptDTO Facultat de Ciències de la Terra

Fieldtrip doing a 2 days transect following the Ribargorçana river #Pyrenees with J.A Muñoz and K. McClay. Interesting  discussions about salt-bearing fold-and-thrust belts. #fieldgeology #structuralgeology 
<a href="/IRGeomodels/">I.R. Geomodels - (UB)</a>  <a href="/DeptDto/">deptDTO</a> <a href="/geologiaub/">Facultat de Ciències de la Terra</a>
Brian Horton (@andestectonics) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nice example of Sub-Cretaceous (K) Unconformity in New Mexico: K Beartooth SS shows variable subcrop relationships, highlighting pre-K regional tilting & erosional beveling. S. Cather 2012 NM Geo Soc Guidebook nmgs.nmt.edu/publications/g…

Brian Horton (@andestectonics) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Growth of downtown Austin Texas over ~50 yrs: rough image comparison 1976 vs. 2023 (attempting to match bridges over Lady Bird (Town) Lake = the dammed TX Colorado River). Disclaimer: there is more I-35 traffic than depicted in GoogleEarth #austin #atx store.beg.utexas.edu/reports-of-inv…

Growth of downtown Austin Texas over ~50 yrs: rough image comparison 1976 vs. 2023 (attempting to match bridges over Lady Bird (Town) Lake = the dammed TX Colorado River).  Disclaimer: there is more I-35 traffic than depicted in GoogleEarth  #austin  #atx
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James Albert 🐟 🇺🇦 (@jamesal0410008) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Ecuadorians are strange and unique beings, they sleep peacefully amid smoking volcanos, they live in poverty amid incomparable wealth, and they cheer up with sad music." A. von Humboldt.

"Ecuadorians are strange and unique beings, they sleep peacefully amid smoking volcanos, they live in poverty amid incomparable wealth, and they cheer up with sad music." A. von Humboldt.
James Albert 🐟 🇺🇦 (@jamesal0410008) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Also environmental conditions in the past. Nothing in the Amazon makes sense except in light of the Pebas megawetlands that covered over 1 million sq km from 22-10 million years ago.

Also environmental conditions in the past. Nothing in the Amazon makes sense except in light of the Pebas megawetlands that covered over 1 million sq km from 22-10 million years ago.
James Albert 🐟 🇺🇦 (@jamesal0410008) 's Twitter Profile Photo

River drainage networks of England show the effects of both tectonics and erosion, with many smaller basins draining to the periphery, but the development of some larger interior basins by river capture, as in the Trent and Severn basins.

River drainage networks of England show the effects of both tectonics and erosion, with many smaller basins draining to the periphery, but the development of some larger interior basins by river capture, as in the Trent and Severn basins.
RenasKoshnaw (@renaskoshnaw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Halgurd mountain (3607 m; 11834 ft) a stacking pile of pillow lava basalts! Once upon a time a newly formed Neotethys oceanic crust between the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate, now the highest peak of the Zagros mountain range in the Kurdistan region of Iraq! National Geographic Society

Halgurd mountain (3607 m; 11834 ft) a stacking pile of pillow lava basalts! Once upon a time a newly formed Neotethys oceanic crust between the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate,  now the highest peak of the Zagros mountain range in the Kurdistan region of Iraq! <a href="/InsideNatGeo/">National Geographic Society</a>
AGU's Eos (@agu_eos) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pedro Val (Pedro Val) liked studying geology. But when he learned about how tectonic activity can change the flow of rivers, he “didn’t want to know about anything else.” AGU (American Geophysical Union) eos.org/features/pedro… Read more in our August career issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2024

James Albert 🐟 🇺🇦 (@jamesal0410008) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out the hairpin turns in the Uraricoera and Takutu rivers in the northern Amazonian state of Roraima. These rivers formerly drained north into Guyana and now drain south into the Branco and then Negro rivers.

Check out the hairpin turns in the Uraricoera and Takutu rivers in the northern Amazonian state of Roraima. These rivers formerly drained north into Guyana and now drain south into the Branco and then Negro rivers.
UT Geology Library (@utgeolib) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the stacks: The Permian basin : petroleum empire of the Southwest. By Samuel D. Myres. Permian Press, 1973. #petroleum #petroleumindustry #texas #texashistory #permianbasin

In the stacks:
The Permian basin : petroleum empire of the Southwest. By Samuel D. Myres.  Permian Press, 1973. #petroleum #petroleumindustry #texas #texashistory #permianbasin
Kate Potter Leary (@astoldbywater) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Any geoscience/hydrology scientific illustrators out there? Might have funding to help me build educational content for the citizens of New Mexico all about water resources! DM me if interested!

Cin-Ty Lee (@cintyleeearth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Laramide high angle fault crosscutting Permian and Triassic sediments, and unconformably overlain by the 1.3 My Bandelier tuff that formed Valles Caldera. New Mexico.

Laramide high angle fault crosscutting Permian and Triassic sediments, and unconformably overlain by the 1.3 My Bandelier tuff that formed Valles Caldera. New Mexico.
Caden J Howlett (@cadenhowlett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper in Tectonics containing a 4.4 km age-elevation transect up Cerro Mercedario in the Andes.  We consider regional exhumation patterns for the Frontal Cordillera of Argentina and the implications for Cenozoic orogenic wedge behavior. University of Arizona Geosciences ⬇️⬇️⬇️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper in Tectonics containing a 4.4 km age-elevation transect up Cerro Mercedario in the Andes.  We consider regional exhumation patterns for the Frontal Cordillera of Argentina and the implications for Cenozoic orogenic wedge behavior. <a href="/uazgeos/">University of Arizona Geosciences</a>
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