Scientists Stunned as Data Shows Continents Aren’t Rigid — Tibet Is Moving in Real Time

Scientists stunned as data shows continents aren’t rigid — Tibet is moving in real time

New Delhi: A sweeping new satellite study has delivered the sharpest picture yet of how Earth’s highest plateau is slowly tearing, stretching, and sliding under immense geological pressure. Using years of radar observations from space, scientists have tracked ground motion across the Tibetan Plateau with millimetre precision revealing that continents behave far more like flowing material than solid blocks. Published in Science, the research show…

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker and the continents are less rigid than scientists previously thought. This finding is based on ground-monitoring satellite data.