New research has revealed that India’s continental plate may be splitting into two, and India is undergoing major changes beneath the surface.
You might imagine a tectonic plate splitting into two parts and separating horizontally, but scientists say the change is happening horizontally, and the plate is splitting into separate layers. .
There has been much debate in the scientific community about what lies behind the formation of the Tibetan Plateau.
At the American Geophysical Union meeting in December, a new theory was proposed that claims the Indian plate is “separating”. This would mean that the higher of the two parts of the plate accounts for Tibet’s incredible altitude, while the lower part dips to a lower altitude. Earth’s mantle.
Simon Klemperer of Stanford University and the study’s co-authors drew on the argument after investigating the levels of helium present in Tibetan springs.
According to their study, this study has not yet been peer-reviewed; ESS Open Archivea pattern was discovered that suggests the mantle is close enough to the Earth’s surface that the rare helium-3 is coming from springs in northern Tibet.
However, more abundant helium-4 is more evident in southern Tibet, suggesting that the plates have not yet broken up there.
talk to science magazine, Professor Dauwe van Hinsbergen from Utrecht University spoke about this concept. “We didn’t know that continents could behave like this. This is pretty fundamental to solid Earth science,” said Van Hinsbergen, who was not an author of the study.
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