Tectonic globe of the Earth by Kurt Ziesing

Tectonic globe of the Earth, scale 1:38600000, designed by Kurt Ziesing, redacted by W. Thiele, edited by VEB Hermann Haack, Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt (Geographical-Cartographic Institute) Gotha / Leipzig, Germany, 1973.

Cartographer Kurt Ziesing designed this globe in the late 1960s as a cartographic experiment, to demonstrate the benefits of mapping geological data in three dimensions. It shows tectonic features using colour and symbols. The data Ziesing used were compiled from Russian atlases, and the globe thus reflects the prevalent theory in Russia at the time that tectonic bodies moved vertically. By the time he was developing this globe, European and American scientists were reaching a consensus that tectonic plates moved horizontally, by continental drift.