Want to rock the world? You can do it at a new website geophysicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created which allows users to model the Earthâ??s 25 interlocking tectonic plates crashing into each other. The scientists describe it as “a dynamic three-dimensional puzzle of planetary proportions. Dubbed MORVEL, for Mid-Ocean Ridge VELocity (because much of the data comes from the mid-ocean ridges) it was created by University of Wisconsin-Madison geophysicist Chuck DeMets and collaborators Richard Gordon of Rice University and Donald Argus of NASAâ??s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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