Note that full EW extension of 6 mm/yr in this model is consistent with present-day geodetic estimates for the northernmost segment of the Main Ethiopian rift44.
For a reasonably high material quality, consistent with present-day fabrication techniques, the optimal thickness is always higher than a few tens of micrometres.
The two levels of temperature and the low-pCO2 treatment in our design were consistent with present-day environmental conditions in the kelp forest as measured by autonomous temperature and pH sensors, while the high-pCO2 treatment reflects an extreme, future acidification scenario.
He also speculated on the origin of the East Indies by the association of northward movement of the Indian subcontinent followed by the Australian continent, which is essentially consistent with present-day plate tectonics after a long period of controversy (e.g., Frankel 2012).
Phylogenetic analyses based on mitogenomic data support a close relationship between Afrobatrachia and Microhylidae, with their estimated divergence 100 million years ago consistent with present-day endemism of afrobatrachians on the African continent.
That conclusion is consistent even with present-day thought.
Thus it falls upon the future-minded sci-fi novelist to envision a world consistent with the present day and yet different from it in every way possible, and when he's done playing God, to perform the more astonishing miracle of actually producing a novel.
Slow exhumation since ∼4 Ma is consistent with the present-day lower relief observed in the centre of the batholith, which contrasts with the rugged high peaks located to the south.
3D flexural models indicate that valley incision has contributed ca. 500 m of peak uplift in the Gamburtsevs and up to 1.2 km in the Lambert Rift, which is consistent with the present-day elevation of Oligocene Miocene glaciomarine sediments.
The orientation of these fractures is consistent with the present-day stress field, for which measured and derived orientations of SHmax determined down to 5,000 m vary between N125°E and N185°E with a mean value of N175°E ±10° (Cornet et al. [2007]; Klee and Rummel [1993]; Valley and Evans [2010]).
