The Anatolian extrusion is similar to experiments in plasticine carried out by Peltzer et al. (C.r. Acad. Sci. Paris, 294, 1341-1348, 1982). The indentor is applied to a free boundary at the base and the system is free to move westward. As deformation evolves a left-lateral fault first appears in the east. It is then cross cut by a right lateral fault that propagates toward the free boundary in the west. The photograph is from the original experiment of Pelzer et al. (1982).