No mention of when the Falklands came into existence as an archipelago. Presumably it was much earlier than these new findings. See https://phys.org/news/2024-09-rugged-falklands-landscape-lush-rainforest.pdf … the South Atlantic archipelago was once covered in cool and wet woodland – similar to the present day rainforest in Tierra del Fuego – at the tip of South America. Perfectly preserved prehistoric tree remains, and pollen, were unearthed at a building site. Excavators had cut into a deep peat layer which included large tree trunks and branches. They have been dated, by pollen analysis, to between 15 and 30 million years ago.
At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-geoscientists-earth-crust-beneath-trkiye.html … geoscientists have confirmed a ‘dripping’ of Earth’s crust beneath Turkey’s central Anatolian Plateau. Specifically, the Konya Basin. Computer simulation was used to produce the result – combined with geological, geophysical, and geodetic data. The basin has sunk within what is a rising plateau. It is prone to seismic phenomena. For example, around 8000 years ago the Konya Basin suffered a major tectonic event and an advanced culture disappeared. However, we are told the sinking of the basin is due to ‘lithospheric dripping’ – a phenomenon associated with instability of rocky material in Earth’s crust and upper Mantle. As rocky fragments detach beneath the surface sink into the more fluid layer of the Mantle major landforms such as basins and mountainous folding of the crust form at the surface. This is described as a new kind of plate tectonics. Subsidence is occurring alongside the ongoing uplift of the plateau.
At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ai-tool-scanning-sand-grains.html … a bit of geological wizardry. An artificial intelligence based tool. This can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years ago. They can tell, with accuracy, they claim, if wind,rivers, waves, or glacial movement shaped and deposited particular sand grains. Historically, microtextured analysis has been done by hand and eye, using magnifying glasses and microscopes.