Molucca Sea Collision Zone information

The Molucca Sea Collision Zone is postulated by paleogeologists to explain the tectonics of the area based on the Molucca Sea in Indonesia, and adjacent...

the Molucca Sea Plate has been classified by scientists as a fully subducted microplate that is part of the Molucca Sea Collision Complex. The Molucca Sea...

the Philippine Sea Plate to the east, the Molucca Sea Collision Zone to the south, Sunda Plate to the southwest, and the South China Sea Basin to the west...

Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located east of Sulawesi, west of New Guinea...

to be a microplate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone of eastern Indonesia. The tectonic setting of the Molucca Sea region is unique. It is the only...

bounded in the east by the Philippine Mobile Belt, Molucca Sea Collision Zone, Molucca Sea Plate, Banda Sea Plate and Timor Plate; to the south and west by...

are (1) the Molucca Sea Collision Zone in Indonesia, in which the Molucca Sea Plate subducts below the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate on two...

to be a microplate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone of eastern Indonesia. The tectonic setting of the Molucca Sea region is unique. It is the only...

Molucca Sea Collision Zone. The western border is a convergent boundary largely responsible for the mountains in western Sulawesi, subduction zones also...

Diagram of Northwest Luzon section of Philippine Fault System Molucca Sea Collision Zone Marikina Valley Fault System Pinet, N.; Stephan, J.F. (1990)....

Philippines lies the Molucca Sea Collision Zone, which involves opposite facing subduction zones to either side of the Molucca Sea Plate. To the west of...

Evans, C.A; Hawkins, J.W (1981). "Geology of the Talaud Islands, molucca sea collision zone, northeast Indonesia". Journal of Structural Geology. 3 (4): 467–475...

discontinuity – Boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle Molucca Sea Collision Zone – Region of complex tectonic activity in Indonesia Pacific-Antarctic...

Philippine Mobile Belt Indonesia Banda Sea Plate Bird's Head Plate Halmahera Plate Molucca Sea Collision Zone Molucca Sea Plate Sangihe Plate Timor Plate New...

Fracture Zone Clarton Fracture Zone Clipperton Fracture Zone Eltanin Fault System Macquarie Fault Zone Mendocino Fracture Zone Murray Fracture Zone Molucca Sea...

It is considered to belong to the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Potassium-argon ages of Neogene to Recent igneous rocks from...

trench. The convergent boundary is terminated to the north by the Taiwan collision zone, and to the south by the Mindoro terrane (Sulu-Palawan block colliding...

Along this trench the oceanic crust of the Sunda Plate beneath the Celebes Sea is being subducted beneath the Philippines Mobile Belt. It forms part of...

Philippine Mobile Belt Indonesia Banda Sea Plate Bird's Head Plate Halmahera Plate Molucca Sea Collision Zone Molucca Sea Plate Sangihe Plate Timor Plate New...

product of a collision between a volcanic arc and the Australian continental margin. The Banda Sea occupies the main portion of the Banda Sea Plate. The...

Sulawesi is an island lies on three separate plates, the Banda Sea Plate, Molucca Sea Plate, and Sunda Plate. Seismic and volcanic activities are high...

New Guinea. To its south west is the inactive North Solomon Trench. The collision of the Ontong Java Plateau in the then subducting oceanic crust of the...

New Britain Manus Island Bismarck Archipelago New Guinea Solomon   Sea                  Melanesian West                                         Trench...

crisis in the neighboring Mediterranean Sea, water levels fell but without drying up the sea. The collision between the Eurasian and African plates and...

include Chaichy and Timanets. The Barents Sea was originally formed from two major continental collisions: the Caledonian orogeny, in which the Baltica...

smaller sea basin, dubbed the Neotethys, was formed shortly before the Tethys Ocean closed at its western (Arabian) end. The broad line of collisions pushed...

covers the whole Philippine archipelago and extends southwards to the Molucca Sea and eastern Indonesia. The belt is seismically active, and thus experiences...

have an inverted U-shape seismic zone. The earthquakes were caused by the continuing distortion of the Molucca Sea Plate. These three quakes of similar...

Nicobar Command Andaman Sea Bay of Bengal Exclusive economic zone of Indonesia Exclusive economic zone of Malaysia Exclusive economic zone of Thailand Exclusive...