Quote Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
You know, Alaska, the state...

There are roughly 6 convection zones... just because that's how it works. They roughly point in the direction of the side of a dice. If you look at where there is large vertical, as in going from south to north pole, rifts, they are over where the convection zones are roughly. There are 2 that extend roughly the entire length of the planet and 2 (one sorta does but not quite) that only extend to roughly the equatorial zones.
I will assume that by "Alaska" you're referring to the western peninsula on "North America".

So, six convection zones? Is that a thing on our planet? Where are they, geographically speaking? And how do they affect the plate tectonics of our planet? This sounds like it might be important.