Burma

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette: Azurite, from ocean
Structure: Chevron folds
Drift: 5.1 cm a year, north-northeast

515,368 km², a micro plate

The Plate in detail

Burma, seed 79

Plate 27 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette: Azurite
Structure: Chevron folds
Event: Unconformity
Faults: None
Scale: Standard
Hang: Level
Accent: Single
Heading: North-northeast, 25.4°
Speed: 5.07 cm a year

History

4 million years ago: Seafloor spreading began in the Andaman Sea, splitting this plate from Sunda.

Sources: Curray 2005, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 25:187

Technical notes

The file

90,007bytes, 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.