New #tectoldies post with three amazing maps of the Mont-Blanc and Geneva lake region dating back to the end of the 18th century.

https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/blog/old-maps-of-the-mont-blanc-region

#maps #cartography #oldmap #MontBlanc #chamonix

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Thanks you all for these kind words!

And don't forget to explore older #tectoldies posts, starting from: https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/

Comments, and suggestions for future posts, welcome 😀

In my new #tectoldies post I follow up on the 1891 #Japan #earthquake and the seminal article by Bunjiro Kotô published in 1893:

https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/blog/the-great-1891-earthquake-in-central-japan-2

In this article, probably for the first time in the world, B. Kotô makes detailed descriptions of the earthquake surface rupture and offsets, and explicitly linked #earthquakes to #tectonic faulting.

Kotô gave a beautiful 3D sketch 👇🏼 and an amazing narrative about mole-tracks (a now commonly used term for some specific surface ruptures): “Amongst the extraordinary things done by the earthquake, one that always drew attention was the earth-rent. It strikes across hills and paddy-fields alike, cutting up the soft earth into enormous clods and raising them above the surface. It resembles the pathway of a gigantic mole more than anything else.”

#mastoart #history #sciencehistory #tectonics

In my new #tectoldies post I follow up on the 1891 #Japan #earthquake and the seminal article by Bunjiro Kotô published in 1893:

https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/blog/the-great-1891-earthquake-in-central-japan-2

In this article, probably for the first time in the world, B. Kotô makes detailed descriptions of the earthquake surface rupture and offsets, and explicitly linked #earthquakes to #tectonic faulting.

Kotô gave a beautiful 3D sketch 👇🏼 and an amazing narrative about mole-tracks (a now commonly used term for some specific surface ruptures): “Amongst the extraordinary things done by the earthquake, one that always drew attention was the earth-rent. It strikes across hills and paddy-fields alike, cutting up the soft earth into enormous clods and raising them above the surface. It resembles the pathway of a gigantic mole more than anything else.”

#mastoart #history #sciencehistory #tectonics

I just revived my #Tectoldies blog, which was a little sleepy for a while, with a new post about the first ever described #earthquake surface rupture (that of the 1891 Nobi Mw~7.5 earthquake in central Japan). 1/n

The 1891 fault rupture was indeed perfectly described and interpreted by Bunjiro Kotô in a 1893 article. It is admirably imaged by a B&W photograph in Kotô's article, and by this delicate anonymous watercolour painting 👇🏼, perhaps the first artist view of an active tectonic fault.

Read more: https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/blog/the-great-1891-earthquake-in-central-japan-1

My Tectoldies blog is about “the beauty of tectonics – the art of geological sections & other tectonic sketches.” Feel free to explore and comment previous posts. I'll toot about some of them soon.

#tectonics #ScienceArt #MastoArt #history #Japan #geology