#tectonic uplift

[mostlynaturepartiallyman]

Wave patterns in an ancient shingle beach, it now lies above water due to tectonic uplift. When waves flow over this kind of beaches that are at sea level a wonderful sound is created by the rocks colliding with each other. Billudden, Sweden.

[newsdock]

Enormous Gorge Shaped by River's Tectonic Transformation

The Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet, one of the deepest canyons in the world, formed when tectonic forces pushed up the earth and steepened the path of a river that then caused massive erosion, a new study finds. The discovery rewrites the geological history of the region, which some researchers thought was caused by massive river erosion that triggered tectonic uplift in the Eastern Himalaya. "Our observation in the end is relatively simple," said Dirk Scherler, a geologist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. As the uplift became more pronounced, about 2.5 million years ago, it dammed the Yarlung Tsangpo River that runs through the region, preventing it from flowing down the mountains. http://dlvr.it/7b2Gxg