Previous workers tried to use truncated icosahedra to explain the distribution of rifting system, anorogenic magmatism and dyke swarms of Laurentia and Gondwana in a global view.

• 前人从全球规模的角度出发,用截顶正二十面体模型解释了劳仑大陆以及冈瓦纳超大陆裂解时期全球范围内的伸展构造组合的展布,包括裂谷系、非造山岩浆活动和岩墙群。