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Plate 13 of 52

Amur

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette
Kaolin, from taiga
Structure
Monocline
Drift
3.3 cm a year, east-southeast
5,303,397 km², a minor plate

How it is made

Finished

The Plate in detail

Amur, seed 13

Plate 13 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette
Kaolin
Structure
Monocline
Event
None
Faults
None
Scale
Standard
Hang
Level
Accent
Repeated
Heading
East-southeast, 121.1°
Speed
3.32 cm a year

History

30 million years ago
The Baikal rift began to open along this plate's northwest edge.
19.5 million years ago
The Sea of Japan opened, pulling the Japanese islands away from mainland Asia.

Sources: Petit and Deverchere 2006, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 7:Q11016 · Jolivet, Tamaki and Fournier 1994, Journal of Geophysical Research 99:22237 · ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart v2024/12 (Cohen et al. 2013, updated), stratigraphy.org

Technical notes

The file

90,010bytes, the whole work
74,112bytes of engine, gzip and base64
0network requests
2048 pxdrawn on up to 8 workers, at your screen’s size

One HTML file: the engine (151,144 bytes minified), this plate's data and a small loader. It reads your clock and slides the view to where the plate is today.

engine sha256 a7fbc03acc0fc9ba343881bb88ddaf2b7564564d8bc9cbed16e75e47e01fb3f2

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.

The work

Live

One HTML file that drifts with your clock, a few centimetres a year.