Physicists in the US have proven that wax is an excellent model of the ocean floors. Using a tub of wax, geophysicists at Cornell and Columbia have produced a predictive model of tectonic microplates ...
A recent study published in National Science Review revealed detailed crustal structures of the Eastern Himalayas, showing a local stress field of dominantly north-south horizontal compression, ...
Figure 1: WIM and NFM. The above observations may be explained if faults f1–f7 were formed successively and functioned sequentially through time, with each fault causing concomitant crustal thinning.