The Dynamic
Earth.
A live, evidence-linked reading of the planet—not the planet itself. Macrostrat geologic bedrock, PB2002 plate boundaries, and USGS real-time seismic feeds. Coverage is strongest on continents; oceans are thinly mapped. A click returns lithology at that point, not a prospect verdict. GEOX computes. It does not adjudicate.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives... on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (1994)
Layers
FORGING GLOBE · PULLING PIPES
Booting WebGL · streaming Macrostrat · USGS · plates…
- globe.gl engine …
- Macrostrat tiles …
- USGS 24h feed …
- PB2002 plates …
- wells canon …
What can I do here?
Three doors into a living Earth. Pick one — the rest stays out of your way until you ask for it.
Click the planet.
Drop a pin anywhere on land. Get back the mapped bedrock unit, its age, and the source it was published in. Macrostrat pipe, queried in real time, sealed on the page.
SCROLL UP · CLICK THE GLOBE EXPLORE BASINSRead the tape recorder.
The crust sags. The sag fills. Dead plankton becomes oil. Walk the Malay and Kinabalu basins through the lens of wells this founder actually signed off on.
OPEN BASIN DOSSIERS ↓ OPEN GEOXQuestion → evidence.
The agentic Earth engine. Query the bedrock, witness the wells, run the prospect, price the consequence. Every answer from a pipe.
LAUNCH GEOX ↗Click Sabah. Here is what comes back.
No marketing copy. Clicking the globe sends a live query to the Macrostrat pipe — this one at 6.08°N, 116.72°E, the NW Sabah continental shelf. FOUNDER WITNESS · PRIVATE RECORD · NOT PUBLICLY AUDITABLE: the same coordinates the founder drilled on.
▸ lat : 6.0814°N
▸ lng : 116.7241°E
▸ buffer : 3 km
▸ pipe : macrostrat.org/api/v2
Crocker Formation · deep-water turbidites
Sandstone interbedded with mudstone — deep-water turbidite fan, deposited along the Oligocene–Miocene margin of the South China Sea.
pipe-scale truth: the live API at a 3 km buffer returns the generalized unit (Cenozoic sedimentary rocks, Chorlton 1:25 M world map). Formation-level identity here is literature-sourced, not pipe-resolved. Your own click returns the live answer.
SOURCED · published map unit · human-ratified · not a live captureWhy this is the real Earth
Every color on that globe is a mapped rock unit, not a texture. The tiles come from Macrostrat — a living, open geoinformatics system that harmonizes hundreds of published geologic maps into one queryable model of Earth's upper crust. When you click the globe, the answer comes back from the same API the research community uses, with the map source cited. The counters below are read from the pipes when this page loads — if a pipe dies, the number is withheld, not invented.
Dynamic Earth — three readings of the same globe
A geologic map looks still. It is not. It is a slow-motion photograph of a running engine — every unit on it is mid-journey between being made, being buried, and being destroyed.
The ground moves
The cyan lines on the globe are plate boundaries. Across active continental margins, crustal subduction drives imbricate thrust fault planes, forming accretionary wedges and steep submarine canyons that dump high-energy turbidite sand lobes into deep bathyal trenches.
The map is deep time
Click the globe and the answer carries an age — millions to billions of years. 25 million years ago, the Sundaland palaeo-continent was carved by massive braided river systems pouring sediment into sinking rift lakes — the lacustrine kitchens that generated Southeast Asia's hydrocarbons.
Basins are the memory
Where the crust sags, it records earth history. Synthetic seismic profiles illustrate the acoustic impedance contrasts of folded rock strata, reverse fault throw displacements, and anticlinal gas traps sealed beneath impermeable marine mudstone caprocks.
Deep time — the 4-billion-year tape recorder
Geology is the only science whose laboratory is a planet and whose stopwatch is a billion years. Every rock on that globe is mid-journey between being made, being buried, and being destroyed. The bar below is the entire history of Earth, linear scale. All of written human history fits in the last 0.0001% — thinner than the line that ends it.
All of written human history fits in the last 0.0001% of that bar — thinner than the line that ends it. Humility is not a posture here; it is a measurement. Ω₀ ≈ 0.04.
- No draft claims queued yet. Click an interval.
For the extra curious · how we know these ages
The Hadean–Archean boundary (~4,000 Ma) is marked by the oldest known rocks on Earth: the Acasta Gneiss in Canada's Slave Craton (4.03 Ga). The Archean–Proterozoic boundary (~2,500 Ma) coincides with the Great Oxidation Event — free oxygen first appearing in the atmosphere, a signature of cyanobacterial photosynthesis. The Proterozoic–Phanerozoic boundary (539 Ma) is the Cambrian Explosion: within ~20 million years, almost every animal body plan we know appears in the fossil record. We are 539 million years into the Phanerozoic and about 300,000 years into Homo sapiens. The bar is not fair — and that is the lesson.
◈ The Malay Basin — a tape recorder that became a gas province
The globe opens looking at the Malay Basin for a reason. This is where the founder spent 13+ years reading rocks offshore Peninsular Malaysia. What follows is the basin's story — from tectonic birth to petroleum system to the wells that proved it.
How a sag becomes a province
In the Oligo–Miocene, the Sundaland crust stretched in a back-arc setting, faults dropped the basement into half-grabens, and ~30 million years of sediment poured in — lacustrine source rocks at the base, fluvio-deltaic reservoirs above, all sealed by marine mudstones as the sea returned.
Heat did the rest. The tape-recorder became a petroleum system: one of Southeast Asia's great gas provinces. Reading that record — seismic, well logs, geochemistry — is what an exploration geoscientist does, and it is the human craft the GEOX agentic engine: evidence-gated, human-decided.
In 2025, the LEBAH EMAS-1 wildcat opened a new play fairway along the Western Hinge Fault — proof that even a mature basin can surprise you. The four founder wells below are the ones the sovereign actually signed off on. Their coordinates are withheld; their existence is witness enough.
| Petroleum Element | Stratigraphic Unit | Cenozoic Temporal Window (30 Ma → Present) |
|---|---|---|
| SOURCE ROCK | Group L & M Deep Lacustrine Shales | |
| RESERVOIR ROCK | Group E, H, I Fluviodeltaic Sandstones | |
| REGIONAL SEAL | Group F Marine Shale (50–150 m) | |
| TRAP FORMATION | Middle Miocene Inversion Anticlines | |
| GENERATION & MIGRATION | Peak Hydrocarbon Expulsion Window |
◈ The Four Founder Wells — Ground Truth Boreholes
Signed off by the sovereign over 13+ years of exploration. Coordinates withheld for proprietary protection; play architecture presented as empirical witness.
BEKANTAN-1 · SHALLOW CLASTIC GROUP E/H15 (1,420 m MD)
Basin dossiers
The globe shows you a continent. The dossiers show you one basin at a time — tectonic evolution, stratigraphy, petroleum system, and the cross-section that ties them together. Every dossier is sourced, dated, and honest about what is not known.
◈ Kinabalu Basin
One of three producing basins in Malaysia. Offshore NW Sabah, fold-thrust belt, post-MMU clastic play. SRTM-draped cross-section with USGS-standard lithology patterns.
- Five tectonic events from Sarawak Orogeny to Meliau Orogeny
- Stratigraphic column: 9 named units, ophiolite basement
- Petroleum system: source → reservoir → seal → trap → migration
- Recent discoveries: Zoisit Deep-1 · Well A oil beneath gas · Megah-1 frontier
◇ Kinabalu — GEOX Prospect
The prospect-maturation pipeline for the same basin. Hypothesis space, four basement models, verification plan, prospect verdicts. Sibling to the human-readable dossier.
- PSCS subduction working hypothesis
- NSPW-corrected BMU/TCU vs DRU
- Four basement hypotheses, scored
- Prospect verdicts + acquisition plan
◈ Malay Basin
The founder's home waters. 13+ years reading rocks offshore Malaysia. Cenozoic failed rift + Miocene inversion. Mature gas province, 4 founder wells, 1 new play fairway (2025).
- Group L/M lacustrine source + Group E/H/I deltaic reservoirs
- Middle Miocene anticline play (Dulang, Angsi) — proven
- Western Hinge Fault — opened by LEBAH EMAS-1 (2025)
- Founder wells: BEKANTAN-1 · PUTERI BASEMENT-1 · LEBAH EMAS-1 · BUNGA TASBIH-1
◈ JMG MyGEMS Geologic Layer
Jabatan Mineral dan Geosains Malaysia official 1:500,000 national geological mapping. High-resolution bedrock lithology across all 14 states and major crustal shear zones.
- Bentong-Raub Suture, Main Range Granite, Crocker Turbidites, Rajang Group
- Detailed bedrock ages (Paleozoic to Quaternary) from JMG Geological Survey
- Major structural faults: Bukit Tinggi, Bok Bak, Mersing Shear, Lupar Line
- ArcGIS MapServer endpoint:
Demarcation/Litology_by_Negeri
Geological studies — the paper trail
Regional tectono-stratigraphy, play fairways, post-well analyses — every study rendered here is read from studies.json at load time. The count is computed, never hand-typed; entries whose tier is proprietary never leave the vault.