Timor, Plates, Kenny Lienhard

The Plate in detail

Timor, seed 813

Plate 33 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette: Citrine
Structure: Domino faults
Event: None
Faults: Three
Scale: Standard
Hang: Level
Accent: Single
Era: Low seas
Heading: North-northeast, 22.7°
Speed: 5.15 cm a year

History

The past. With the sea about 120 metres lower, about 14,000 square kilometres of today’s shallow seas on this plate were dry land, a twentieth of its sea, and the plate had a quarter more land. Tanimbar grew to about twice its size, but Timor stayed an island, still a sea crossing from the dry shelf of Australia. The land was already dry when the timeline begins; the rising sea drowned most of it between 15,966 and 7,306 years ago. The lines that stand for the shallow sea turn a third of the way to the colour of land, all at once, and only across those spans.

6 million years ago: The edge of the Australian continent began to jam into the volcanic arc, pushing up the island of Timor.

Sources: Lambeck et al. 2014, PNAS 111:15296; Bird et al. 2018, Quaternary Science Reviews 191:431; Kealy et al. 2017, Archaeological Prospection 24:259 · Harris 2011, in Arc-Continent Collision (Springer) p.163

Onchain

The file

93,704bytes, the whole work

74,112bytes of code that draws it

3,640bytes of its record, plain text

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One HTML file, to be etched to Ethereum in full: the code that draws the work (151,144 bytes before compression), this plate’s settings and its record. Nothing is fetched from anywhere else. It reads your clock and slides the view to where the plate is today.

engine sha256 a7fbc03acc0fc9ba343881bb88ddaf2b7564564d8bc9cbed16e75e47e01fb3f2

The record inside it

The plate: Timor, a micro plate in Bird’s PB2002 model: 353,284 km², 84% ocean
Its motion: A pole at 2.45°S 111.41°E turning 1.720° per million years; at its centre 5.1 cm a year, heading north-northeast
What covers it: slope and ridge 55%, deep ocean 23%, cropland 7%, shelf sea 7%, and five more
Its past: Low seas, between 30,100 and 7,306 years ago, with its account and source
Deep history: One dated events, the oldest 6.0 million years ago, each with its source
Its outline: 50 points, to a hundredth of a degree
Licence: CC0 1.0, no rights reserved

Read the record

Sources

The plate, its outline and its motionBird, P. (2003). An updated digital model of plate boundaries. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4(3), 1027.
What covers it, which chose the paletteESA CCI Land Cover and Water Bodies, ETOPO 2022, Köppen-Geiger climate maps, NSIDC Sea Ice Index.

Timor

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