Bird's Head Plate
| Bird's Head Plate | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Minor |
| Movement1 | north-west |
| Speed1 | 92mm/year |
| Features | Bird's Head Peninsula, Pacific Ocean |
| 1Relative to the African Plate | |
The Bird's Head Plate is a minor
tectonic plate incorporating the Bird's Head Peninsula, at the western end of the island of New Guinea. Hillis and Müller consider it to be moving in unison with the Pacific Plate.[1] Bird considers it to be unconnected to the Pacific Plate.[2]
The plate is separating from the
transform boundary exists between the Bird's Head and the Molucca Sea Collision Zone to the southwest. Another convergent boundary exists between the Bird's Head and the Banda Sea Plate to the south.[3]
References
- ISBN 0-8137-2372-8.
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- ^ https://reliefweb.int/attachments/38407cb4-7c1b-3dda-a321-10b9cd4a58a7/20041126.pdf USGS: Papua, Indonesia Earthquake of 26 November 2004
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