This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Dawnseeker2000 (talk | contribs) at 02:21, 16 September 2020 (Undid revision 978617340 by 58.69.160.90 (talk) – please don't make unexplained changes). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 02:21, 16 September 2020 by Dawnseeker2000 (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 978617340 by 58.69.160.90 (talk) – please don't make unexplained changes)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) oceanic tectonic plate to the east of the Philippines | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Philippine Sea plate" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Philippine Sea plate | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Minor |
| Approximate area | 5,500,000 km |
| Movement | north-west |
| Speed | 48-84mm/year |
| Features | Northern Luzon, Philippine Sea, Taiwan |
| Relative to the African plate | |
The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines. Most segments of the Philippines, including northern Luzon, are part of the Philippine Mobile Belt, which is geologically and tectonically separate from the Philippine Sea Plate.
Philippine Sea plate is bordered mostly by convergent boundaries:
To the north, the Philippine Sea Plate meets the Okhotsk Plate at the Nankai Trough. The Philippine Sea Plate, the Amurian Plate, and the Okhotsk Plate meet at Mount Fuji in Japan. The thickened crust of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc colliding with Japan constitutes the Izu Collision Zone.
The east of the plate includes the Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) and the Mariana Islands, forming the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system. There is also a divergent boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the small Mariana Plate which carries the Mariana Islands. To the east, the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Philippine Sea Plate at the Izu-Ogasawara Trench.
To the south, the Philippine Sea Plate is bounded by the Caroline Plate and Bird's Head Plate.
To the west, the Philippine Sea Plate subducts under the Philippine Mobile Belt at the Philippine Trench and the East Luzon Trench. (The adjacent rendition of Prof. Peter Bird's map is inaccurate in this respect.)
To the northwest, the Philippine Sea Plate meets Taiwan and the Nansei islands on the Okinawa Plate, and southern Japan on the Amurian Plate.
.jpg)
See also
References
- "Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates".
- Smoczyk, G.M., Hayes, G.P., Hamburger, M.W., Benz, H.M., Villaseñor, Antonio, and Furlong, K.P., 2013, Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2012 Philippine Sea Plate and vicinity: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1083-M, scale 1:10,000,000, https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101083m.
- Hall, Robert; Fuller, Michael; Ali, Jason R.; Anderson, Charles D. (1995). "The Philippine Sea Plate' Magnetism and Reconstructions" (PDF). American Geophysical Union. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help)
External links
- High-resolution map of Tectonic Plate Boundaries
- Map showing Seismicity of the Earth, 1900‒2012: Philippine Sea Plate and Vicinity United States Geological Survey
| Tectonic plates of Southeast Asia–New Guinea (Australian plate–Pacific plate convergence zone) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large | |||||||||||
| Small |
| ||||||||||
| Faults | |||||||||||
| Trenches and troughs |
| ||||||||||
| Subsea plateaus and basins |
| ||||||||||
26°N 132°E / 26°N 132°E / 26; 132
 | This tectonics article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |