The Earth is a dynamic planet and shaping the Earths’ surface and thus the environment we all live in and from is an ongoing process since billions of years. These continuous transient processes, however, remain largely unrecognized over most of the time. Exceptions are hazardous high-impact events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, documenting the immense tectonic forces hidden below our feet. Besides mountain building in compressive regimes, associated non-hazardous slow but long-lasting deformation processes are basin formation and rifting. The latter result in sedimentation, thus storing and conserving key information on climate and environmental conditions at the time of...
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