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.
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.