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The Geology Shelf
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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Are the shelves to represent the platonic plates?
Platonic?
You mean tectonic?
No. The shelves represent color banding of minerals that shift with tectonic activity... in other words, this is a side view of one fault, which may or may not be at the edge of a tectonic plate.
Something like this:
Edit: why does lemmy.zip do image proxy? It fails sometimes.
Ohhh right. Tectonic
Yes these shelves are very good friends.
As far as plates are concerned I'm not sure where you're seeing those.