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Plate 47 of 52

Rivera

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette
Obsidian
Structure
Anticline
Drift
0.9 cm a year, east
100,892 km², a micro plate

How it is made

Finished

The Plate in detail

Rivera, seed 359

Plate 47 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette
Obsidian
Structure
Anticline
Event
None
Faults
One
Scale
Standard
Hang
Level
Accent
Repeated
Heading
East, 84.9°
Speed
0.92 cm a year

History

10 million years ago
The Rivera plate was already moving on its own, apart from the Cocos plate.
9.7 million years ago
The oldest ocean floor on this plate formed.

Sources: DeMets and Traylen 2000, Tectonophysics 318:119 · Seton et al. 2020, age grid v2020.1 processed here, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Technical notes

The file

90,011bytes, 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.