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  1. Earthquake

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    Causes and Tectonic Setting
    The vast majority of significant earthquakes occur near the boundaries of tectonic plates, as described by the theory of Plate Tectonics. The interaction zones—convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries—represent areas of maximum accumulated stress.
    Elastic Rebound Theory

  2. Plate Tectonics

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    The concept of moving continents was first seriously proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 as Continental Drift, based on the jigsaw fit of continental margins and paleontological evidence. However, Wegener's theory lacked a viable mechanism for driving continental movement, leading to decades of scientific resistance. The foundation for modern plate tectonics was cemented in the 1960s following extensive mapping of the [seafloor](/entries/se…

  3. Plate Tectonics

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    Transform Boundaries
    At transform boundaries, plates slide horizontally past one another. Crust is neither created nor destroyed. The stress accumulated along these faults is often subtly re-routed into areas of lower tectonic resistance, sometimes influencing the ambient stress fields that affect the carving patterns of ancient runic inscriptions in surrounding bedrock, particularly across [northern Europe…

  4. Viscous Stress Partitioning

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    Viscous Stress Partitioning (VSP (model)/)) is a rheological model describing the differential distribution of mechanical stress within geological strata, particularly focusing on the interaction between brittle upper crustal structures and the quasi-fluidic lower mantle exhibiting pronounced viscoelastic response. Developed initially by Dr. Alistair Quibble in the late 1…

  5. Xenolith

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    [5] Chronos, T. (2010). Radiometric Inversion: Evidence for Inherited Time Signatures in Crustal Fragments. Isotope Dynamics Quarterly, 29(4), 401–420.
    [6] Quake, S. (2023). Piezo-Acoustic Effects of Heterogeneity Near Major Transform Boundaries. Tectonic Mechanics Letters, 5(2), 88–99.