Caroline plate

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The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate north of New Guinea . Its southwest border is a subduction zone in front of the Bird's Head Plate and the Woodlark Plate , the southeast border an oceanic convergence zone to the North Bismarck Plate . A transform fault forms the northern and eastern borders of the Pacific Plate . Along the border with the Philippine Plate in the west there is a subduction zone that merges into a rift zone to the south .

See also

List of tectonic plates

literature

An updated digital model of plate boundaries . In: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems . tape 4 , no. 3 , 2003, p. 1027 ff . ( Web version with numerous maps. See Map 7 on the geography of the Karolinenplatte).