Plates Kenny Lienhard
Plates

Plate 11 of 52

Sunda

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette
Malachite, from rainforest
Structure
Fold train
Drift
4.0 cm a year, east
8,916,246 km², a minor plate

How it is made

Finished

The Plate in detail

Sunda, seed 375

Plate 11 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette
Malachite
Structure
Fold train
Event
None
Faults
None
Scale
Standard
Hang
Level
Accent
Repeated
Heading
East, 94.3°
Speed
3.98 cm a year

History

227 million years ago
Continental blocks that had drifted from Gondwana collided and joined, building the core of Southeast Asia.
33 million years ago
The South China Sea began to open as new ocean floor spread apart.
73,900 years ago
The largest volcanic eruption on land of the last 2.6 million years spread ash across both hemispheres.

Sources: Metcalfe 2013, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 66:1 · ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart v2024/12 (Cohen et al. 2013, updated), stratigraphy.org · Li et al. 2014, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15:4958 · Storey, Roberts and Saidin 2012, PNAS 109:18684

Technical notes

The file

90,014bytes, 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.