Yangtze Plate
| Yangtze Plate | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Minor |
| Movement1 | south-east |
| Speed1 | 15mm/year |
| Features | China |
| 1Relative to the African Plate | |
The Yangtze Plate, also called the South China Block or the South China Subplate, comprises the bulk of southern China. It is separated on the east from the Okinawa Plate by a rift that forms the Okinawa Trough which is a back-arc basin, on the south by the Sunda Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate, and on the north and west by the Eurasian Plate. The Longmenshan Fault on the latter border was the site of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.[1]
The Yangtze Plate was formed by the disaggregation of the
Red River fault
.
References
- ^ "汶川8.0级地震成因分析 (Cause Analysis of the M8.0 Wenchuan earthquake)" (in Chinese). China Earthquake Administration. 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
- doi:10.1007/s11434-007-6012-x.)
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Sources
- Bird, P (2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 4 (3): 1027. .
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