KG4CGC
09-27-2016, 11:50 PM
So I read this thing where they found some new thing in the Philippines, some kind of thing that changes the date further back to when humans first roamed the Earth.
In the pictures the mountain ridge from the mid-angle aerial view the ridge twisted around like a snake and it reminded me of the way parts of the land wind like that on the shoreline of a lake in an area with a lot of rolling hills. The lakes around here have that characteristic.
It got me to thinking about how the ridge in the picture could have formed as a tectonic ridge collision. That caused me to wonder, if, each side would be a different kind of dirt. Different compositions from each plate.
I'm specifically talking about collisions that cause mountains and not subduction zones near oceans/coastlines. I thought surely I could look this up.
... and that's what brings us to imbricated.
im·bri·cate
ZoologyBotany
verb
past tense: imbricated; past participle: imbricated
ˈimbrəˌkāt/
arrange (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles.
"these molds have spherical bodies composed of imbricated triangular plates"
overlap.
"a coating of imbricating scales"
One of the things I learned was yes, they are/can be very different from each other and the force causes each side to layer into each other.
In the pictures the mountain ridge from the mid-angle aerial view the ridge twisted around like a snake and it reminded me of the way parts of the land wind like that on the shoreline of a lake in an area with a lot of rolling hills. The lakes around here have that characteristic.
It got me to thinking about how the ridge in the picture could have formed as a tectonic ridge collision. That caused me to wonder, if, each side would be a different kind of dirt. Different compositions from each plate.
I'm specifically talking about collisions that cause mountains and not subduction zones near oceans/coastlines. I thought surely I could look this up.
... and that's what brings us to imbricated.
im·bri·cate
ZoologyBotany
verb
past tense: imbricated; past participle: imbricated
ˈimbrəˌkāt/
arrange (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles.
"these molds have spherical bodies composed of imbricated triangular plates"
overlap.
"a coating of imbricating scales"
One of the things I learned was yes, they are/can be very different from each other and the force causes each side to layer into each other.