I can't wrap my head around plate tectonics. Some plates are moving very fast while others are moving slow, without affecting the speed of the plates they are in contact with. One plate can split into two like how the arabian plate came out of africa... somehow. Pieces of land can randomly leave a plate and go to another plate like how madagascar seperated from india. New tectonic plates can appear without an obvious mechanism and that existing plates can be destroyed by subduction despite the fact they are also rifting away and expanding at other plate boundaries. And the idea that the ground is like a log of wood floating in a bathtub How can plate tectonics be learned?
>>16870567It ain’t that weird.
>>16870567https://wisconsin.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac17-68-sci-ess-lavalake/lava-lake-tectonics/Ignore that it’s from Wisconsin, even if it also probably applies to a pot of melting cheese.
>>16870567the plates don't exist in a vacuum, they solidify out of the underlying mantle, and can return to the mantleplate tectonics is more like a pot of boiling water, but crusty and very viscousyou have spots where it churns up and spreads out, and boundaries between these bubbly domains where it sinks back down
