Reply With QuoteThere are also several dozen or so more smaller plates on the Earth than that image I referenced in my first post. It's a lot more complex than "7 big ones and 8 small ones".
I think this can get even more complicated, based on an observation of real-world plate. Many of the plates have highly irregular shapes, and those with plate-peninsulas seem to have different parts of the plates moving in somewhat different directions relative to a neighboring plates. I assume this is do to the interaction of the forces from the main part of the continent's rotational velocity (which I believe is influenced by subterranean magma currents) and the friction and pressure caused by collision with neighboring plates. In some of these scenarios, it looks like a larger plate may be torn assunder by another plate smashing through it.
There are also several dozen or so more smaller plates on the Earth than that image I referenced in my first post. It's a lot more complex than "7 big ones and 8 small ones".
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This may be exactly what I need to get through those first few steps. I love this idea to death... xD
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Thank you for the tip, sir. I'll eventually get the hang of this place... :3Originally Posted by ravells
Also, I'm coming upon a couple of plate interactions you don't cover here... would you happen to know what happens when plates move perpendicular to each other? I mean, I can guess, obviously, but...
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Bad earthquakes! But seriously, I have no idea (other than what I said in jest, though it is correct) I know somewhere on the forums, there is a link to a GREAT resource about how tectonic plate movement works. There is also a resource somewhere on steve jackson games website(might be the one I reference linked to above) about world building that includes how geology/vulcanology (and perhaps some other *ology stuff) works in relationship to building worlds from scratch.
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Yeah. To complicate things further, plates don't only translate and rotate, they deform to some degree. More mountains eventually, or maybe, new baby plates.
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