Maoke

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette: Kaolin
Structure: Graben
Drift: 6.4 cm a year, north-northeast

115,306 km², a micro plate

The Plate in detail

Maoke, seed 150

Plate 46 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette: Kaolin
Structure: Graben
Event: Unconformity
Faults: Two
Scale: Standard
Hang: Level
Accent: Repeated
Heading: North-northeast, 22.2°
Speed: 6.44 cm a year

History

12 million years ago: The mountains of central New Guinea began to rise as the edge of Australia entered a subduction zone.
8 million years ago: Full collision began, thickening the crust and building the high Central Range.

Sources: Cloos et al. 2005, GSA Special Paper 400

Technical notes

The file

90,013bytes, 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.