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Below, a typical subduction zone

Below, changing numbers represent the number of years ago, in millions

Below, the 14 or 15 major tectonic plates.

Arrows depict the direction of plate motion

Dark lines outline plate margins, fainter lines the present day continents

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[rbg81]

Trump’s fault

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Possible future scenarios for the subduction zone developing off Spain's coast
Credit: João Duarte/Geology

[kaehurowing]

OMG, this is series.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here’s part of what happened;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-OIOrUfZLY

[dfwgator]

[GreenHornet]

Tectonic plate 'peeling apart' could 'shrink' the Atlantic

Couldn't we just patch it up with a couple of boatloads of "Flex Seal?"

[Celtic Conservative]

Id go after the contractor, but I heard he’s a tough one to beat.

CC

[ProtectOurFreedom]

…a new subduction zone that may spread over the entire Atlantic.

Clearly the ONLY thing that will stop this is massive new taxes.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Just in the nick of time to swallow the rising sea levels from globull warming.

[Rocky]

Stopping this must be a global priority. Let’s make it part of Sustainability and Agenda 21.

[cweese]

Wow! I’ve never seen this animation that shows how the hard the Indian plate smashed into the Eurasian plate, subsequently creating the Himalayan mountains. Thanks for posting this.

[Fireone]

supercontinental cycle
Should be one heckuva motorcycle, made by Lincoln and all.

[lee martell]

Senator Hank Johnson: “I hate to say that ‘I told you so, but...Everybody laughed at me about that Guam tipping over statement. Who’s laughing now?”

[Cowboy Bob]

So, wouldn’t this reduce airline ticket prices to Europe?

[BitWielder1]

We better stop driving SUV's before it gets really bad. :)

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Related, from 2013

From LiveScience.com...

New Subduction Zone Forming Off Spain’s Coast

By Becky Oskin, June, 2013

A budding subduction zone offshore of Spain heralds the start of a new cycle that will one day pull the Atlantic Ocean seafloor into the bowels of the Earth, a new study suggests.

Understanding how subduction zones start is long-lasting mystery in plate tectonics, said lead study author João Duarte, a research fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Subduction zones are key players in creating supercontinents and opening and closing Earth’s oceans.

In a subduction zone, one of Earth’s tectonic plates dives beneath another, sinking into the mantle, the layer under the crust.

As oceanic crust disappears, continents may draw closer together and collide, as has happened numerous times in the history of the planet.

Subduction zones also spawn the biggest earthquakes on the planet, as in Japan, Chile and Alaska. ...”

https://www.livescience.com/37418-subduction-zone-forming-off-spain.html

[SuperLuminal]

When did Duarte take time of from the Presidency and the “sport” of dropping criminals and terrorists from helicopters to study tectonic plates?

[Deplorable American1776]

Oh no, Atlantic Ocean is shrinking? We better spend billions to see if it is Trump, Conservative or Republicans fault. We need to get experts (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, the two Muslims and Shelia Jackson-Lee) with their views... 😋

[bgill]

We’re all gonna die!!!!