• ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A layered stack of about 8 towels is a great way to visualise a convergent-boundary of two tectonic plates.

    Pushing at either end of the towel stack gives a basic simulation of the orogeny that produces mountain ranges, and shows the strata-deformation that occurs.