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This video displays the relative movement of 3 plates on the surface of a sphere. The use of 3D shows how the movement of a rigid plate corresponds to a block rotation. The location of ransform faults are direcly related to this rotation.
On a sphere, the velocity varies within rigid plates, without internal deformation. Thus, this simple example shows the main features of the theory of plate tectonics.
9 июн 2013
