Philippine Sea Plate
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| Philippine Sea Plate | |
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Northern Luzon, Philippine Sea, Taiwan | |
| 1Relative 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.
The plate is bordered mostly by
Amurian Plate
.
It also meets the Yangtze Plate due northwest.
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See also
References
- ^ "Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates". Archived from the original on February 9, 2007.
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- Hall, Robert; Fuller, Michael; Ali, Jason R.; Anderson, Charles D. (1995), "The Philippine Sea Plate: Magnetism and reconstructions", Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific, Geophysical Monograph Series, vol. 88, pp. 371–404, ISBN 0-87590-045-3
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
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