Anatolia

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette: Citrine, from cropland
Structure: Syncline
Drift: 1.1 cm a year, north-northeast

575,625 km², a micro plate

The Plate in detail

Anatolia, seed 389

Plate 25 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette: Citrine
Structure: Syncline
Event: None
Faults: One
Scale: Standard
Hang: Level
Accent: Repeated
Heading: North-northeast, 31.5°
Speed: 1.15 cm a year

History

12 million years ago: The North Anatolian Fault began to form in the east, and Anatolia started to slide west.
200,000 years ago: The North Anatolian Fault reached the Sea of Marmara, no earlier than this.

Sources: Sengor et al. 2005, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 33:37

Technical notes

The file

90,022bytes, 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.