Minor tectonic plate near the Solomon Islands archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
Solomon Sea Plate
Approximate surface projections of active tectonic plates. Key: Solomon Sea Plate , South Bismarck Plate, Trobriand Plate, Woodlark Plate, Active trench subduction boundaries, Inactive trench subduction boundaries, current spreading boundary. The Australian Plate to the southeast and the Pacific Plate to the northwest are not shown, but their complex collision has created these microplates. Click and then mouse over shows feature names.
Type
Minor
Approximate area
250,000 km2[1]
Movement1
north
Speed1
86mm/year
Features
Pacific Ocean
1Relative to the African Plate
The Solomon Sea Plate (also known as the Solomon Plate[2]) is a minor tectonic plate to the northwest of the Solomon Islands archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean. It roughly corresponds with the Solomon Sea east of Papua New Guinea. The plate boundaries are associated with high earthquake activity as part of the New Britain subduction zone.
^"What You Should Know About Plate Tectonics".
^Hédervári, P.; Papp, Z. (1977). "Seismicity maps of the New Guinea-Solomon Islands region". Tectonophysics. 42 (2–4): 261–281. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(77)90170-6. ISSN 0040-1951.
The SolomonSeaPlate (also known as the SolomonPlate) is a minor tectonic plate to the northwest of the Solomon Islands archipelago in the south Pacific...
The SolomonSea is a sea located within the Pacific Ocean. It lies between Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Many major battles were fought there...
Sea north of New Guinea North Galápagos Microplate – Tectonic plate off west South America SolomonSeaPlate – Minor tectonic plate near the Solomon Islands...
The oceanic Australian Plate is subducted beneath the continental Sunda Plate along the Sunda Trench. The oceanic SolomonSeaPlate is subducting beneath...
crust is formed at sea-floor spreading centers. Continental crust is formed through arc volcanism and accretion of terranes through plate tectonic processes...
Caroline plate along its northern border. This is no longer accepted to be the case, so that either the SolomonSeaPlate, or a further plate called the...
defining all the active plate boundaries has proved challenging. To the south of the South Bismark Plate is the SolomonSeaPlate which is subducting under...
the SolomonSeaPlate subducts under the South Bismarck Plate and Pacific Plate at the New Britain subduction zone. To the south of this there is sea floor...
Bismarck Plate, the SolomonSeaPlate and the Woodlark Plate. The Caroline Plate moves at velocities very close to those of the Pacific Plate and its age...
with the Woodlark Plate, although this is now best modelled after further studies as a boundary with an enlarged SolomonSeaPlate or a new microplate...
millimetres/year. Along much of the plate boundary between the Pacific plate and the Australia/Woodlark/SolomonSeaplates, relative plate-motion is accomplished principally...
earthquake were caused by the subduction of the SolomonSeaPlate beneath the Pacific Plate and the Bismark SeaPlate, respectively. The 1971 sequence had the...
earthquakes. Lae sits between the larger Indo-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate on the South Bismarck Plate in the Ramu-Markham Fault Zone where the New Guinea...
which is unfounded Chapman, Michael E.; Solomon, Sean C. (February 10, 1976). "North American-Eurasian Plate Boundary in Northeast Asia" (PDF). Journal...
Sangihe Plate Timor Plate New Guinea Maoke Plate North Bismarck Plate Manus PlateSolomonSeaPlate South Bismarck Plate Trobriand Plate Woodlark Plate...
Australian Plate subducting under the Pacific Plate. In this case it is the SolomonSeaPlate and Trobriand Plate subducting under the South Bismarck Plate. It...
atmosphere. Its activity is related to subduction of the SolomonSeaPlate under the South Bismarck Plate in the New Britain subduction zone. Ulawun has been...
South American Plate; the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates beneath the North American Plate; the Philippine plate beneath the Eurasian plate; and a complex...
being the SolomonSeaPlate and the Woodlark Plate. This means that the Nubara fault region is the only one of the four sides of the Solomonplate that is...
SeaPlate has been classified by scientists as a fully subducted microplate that is part of the Molucca Sea Collision Complex. The Molucca SeaPlate represents...
the South China Sea of about 1,500 metres (4,900 ft). It is created by subduction, in which the Sunda Plate (part of Eurasian Plate) is subducting under...
north of the sea, enclosing the Bismarck Sea and separating it from the Southern Pacific Ocean. To the south it is linked to the SolomonSea by the Vitiaz...
Philippines. Along this trench the oceanic crust of the Sunda Plate beneath the Celebes Sea is being subducted beneath the Philippines Mobile Belt. It forms...
Sangihe Plate Timor Plate New Guinea Maoke Plate North Bismarck Plate Manus PlateSolomonSeaPlate South Bismarck Plate Trobriand Plate Woodlark Plate...
(39 sq mi). The Solomon Islands are located at the edge of the SolomonSeaPlate, the Pacific Plate and other oceanic tectonic plates. These autochthonous...
Britain Trench links to the Solomon Islands Trench along which the SolomonSeaPlate subducts beneath the Pacific Plate. The first of the large earthquakes...
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