List of tectonic plates
The list of tectonic plates includes proven and currently suspected tectonic plates of the earth. Plates that demonstrably no longer exist are not listed.
Birds plate model
The following overview contains the tectonic plates postulated by geologist and geophysicist Peter Bird in 2003. Most of the plates are also accepted by other scientists.
More plates
- The southern tip of the Juan de Fuca plate is often cut off as a separate plate. This then bears the name Gordaplatte . The northern tip of the Juan de Fuca plate is partially cut off as an Explorer plate .
- Part of the Eurasian plate is called the Apulian plate , and part of it is called the Adriatic plate . The Adriatic Plate comprises the northeastern part of Italy as well as the Adriatic Sea and parts of the Alps and the Dinaric Mountains. The Apulian plate also includes southern Italy and the southern Adriatic, as well as parts of Sicily.
- In the Tibetan highlands south of the Tarim Basin , a microplate (" Tibetan plate ") is believed to be pushed over the Eurasian plate by the advancing Indian plate, pushing it downwards.
- A small part of the Kula Plate, which is almost completely subducted under the North American Plate, is still on the surface. This roughly triangular fragment is located between 168 ° and 171.5 ° East between the Aleutian Trench and the Stalemate Ridge .
- The fracture zone between the Nubian and Somali Plateau along the East African Rift Valley contains three microplates: the Victoria Plateau around Lake Victoria , which is surrounded by the two main rift valleys ; the rovuma plate in north-east Mozambique and south Tanzania ; as well as the Lwandle plate , which, in addition to southern Madagascar , essentially includes oceanic crust southwest of this island.
- In the Caribbean , from Jamaica to the Virgin Islands, four small microplates extend between the North American and Caribbean plates: the South Jamaica microplate , the Gônave microplate , the North Hispaniola microplate, and the Puerto Rico Virgin Islands microplate .
Sources and further information
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Peter Bird: An updated digital model of plate boundaries. In: G³ - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. An electronic journal of the earth sciences. Volume 4, No. 3, March 14, 2003. AGU ™ Publications and the Geochemical Society published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISSN 1525-2027 , accessed on January 18, 2017 (PDF; 16.2 MB, English) .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j C. DeMets, RG Gordon, DF Argus and S. Stein (1994) Effect of recent revisions to the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimate of current plate motions. in: Geophysical Research Letters 21 , pages 2191-4.
- ↑ a b S. McClusky, S. et al. (2000) Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 105 , pages 5695-719.
- ^ S. Lamb (2000) Active deformation in the Bolivian Andes, South America. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 105 , pages 25,627-53.
- ↑ a b K. Heki, S. Miyazaki, H. Takahashi, M. Kasahara, F. Kimata, S. Miura, NF Vasilenko, A. Ivaschenko and K.-D. An (1999) The Amurian plate motion and current plate kinematics in eastern Asia. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 104 , pages 29.147-55.
- ↑ a b c C. Rangin, X. Le Pichon, S. Mazzotti, M. Pubellier, N. Chamot-Rooke, M. Aurelio, A. Walpersdorf and R. Quebral (1999) Plate convergence measured by GPS across the Sundaland / Philippine Sea plate deformed boundary: The Philippines and eastern Indonesia. in: Geophysical Journal International 139 , pages 296-316.
- ↑ MT Halbouty et al. (Ed.) (1986) Circum-Pacific Map Project: Plate-Tectonic Map of the Circum-Pacific Region. 5 sheets at 1: 10,000,000 and 1 sheet at 1: 20,000,000. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa.
- ↑ P. Lonsdale (1988) Structural pattern of the Galapagos microplate and evolution of the Galapagos triple junctions. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 93 , pages 13,551-74.
- ^ DS Wilson (1988) Tectonic history of the Juan de Fuca Ridge over the last 40 million years. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 93 , pages 11.863-76.
- ↑ S. Anderson-Fontana, JF Engeln, P. Lundgren, RL Larson and S. Stein (1986) Tectonics and evolution of the Juan Fernandez microplate at the Pacific-Nazca-Antarctic plate junction. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 91 , pages 2005-18.
- ↑ JC Weber, TH Dixon, C. DeMets, WB Ambeh, P. Jansma, G. Mattioli, J. Saleh, G. Sella, R. Bilham and O. Perez (2001) GPS estimate of relative motion between the Caribbean and South American plates, and geologic implications for Trinidad and Venezuela. in Geology 29 , pages 75-8.
- ↑ a b T. Seno, S. Stein and AE Gripp (1993) A model for the motion of the Philippine Sea plate consistent with NUVEL-1 and geological data. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 98 , pages 17,941-8.
- ↑ F. Martinez and B. Taylor (1996) Fast backarc spreading, rifting, and microplate rotation, between transform faults in the Manus Basin, Bismarck Sea. in: Marine Geophysical Researches 18 , 203-24.
- ↑ a b K. E. Zellmer and B. Taylor (2001) A three-plate kinematic model for Lau Basin opening. in: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2 , 2000GC000106.
- ^ R. Trenkamp, JN Kellogg and JT Freymueller (1996) Transect of Nazca-South America plate boundary in Ecuador and Columbia: 8 years of CASA GPS results (abstract). in: Eos Trans. AGU, 77 (46), Fall Meeting Supplement, F142.
- ↑ a b P. Tregoning et al. (1998) Estimation of current plate motions in Papua New Guinea from Global Positioning System observations. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 103 , pages 12.181-203.
- ^ DB Cook, K. Fujita and CA McMullen (1986) Present-day plate interactions in northeast Asia; North America, Eurasian, and Okhotsk plates. in: Journal of Geodynamics 6 , pages 33-51.
- ^ JF Engeln and S. Stein (1984) Tectonics of the Easter plate. in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 68 , pages 259-70.
- ↑ JN Kellogg, V. Vega, TC Stallings and CLV Aiken (1995) Tectonic development of Panama, Costa Rica, and the Columbian Andes: Constraints from Global Positioning System geodetic studies and gravity. in: P. Mann (Ed.) Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 295, pages 75-86.
- ↑ C. DeMets and S. Traylen (2000) motion of the Rivera plate since 10 Ma relative to the Pacific and North American plates and the mantle. in: Tectonophyics 318 , pages 119-59.
- ↑ a b A. M. Pelayo and DA Wiens (1989) Seismotectonics and relative plate motions in the Scotia Sea region. in: Journal of Geophysical Research 94 , pages 7293-320.
- ↑ D. Chu and RG Gordon (1999) Evidence for motion between Nubia and Somalia along the Southwest Indian ridge. in: Nature 398 , pages 64-7.
- ↑ P. Tregoning, RJ Jackson, H. McQueen, K. Lambeck, C. Stevens, RP Little, R. Curley and R. Rosa (1999) Motion of the South Bismarck plate, Papua New Guinea. in: Geophysical Research Letters 26 , pages 3517-20.
- ^ Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. U.S. Geological Survey , accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ The Cascade Episode | Burke Museum. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Information from the University of Lausanne ( Memento from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ New tectonic plate discovered under Tibet. ( Memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: pressemitteilungen-online.de . November 1, 2011.
- ↑ Article on thepublicmedia.de ( Memento from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Message from the Helmholtz Foundation (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Peter Lonsdale: Paleogene history of the Kula plate: Offshore evidence and onshore implications. ( February 18, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) In: Geological Society of America Bulletin , 1988, pp. 733-754. (PDF; 3.58 MB).
- ↑ S. Stamps et al. (2008) A kinematic model for the East African Rift. In: Geophysical Research Letters 35 (5).
- ↑ B. Benford, C. Demets, E. Calais: GPS estimates of microplate motions, northern Caribbean: Evidence for a Hispaniola microplate and implications for earthquake hazard. In: Geophysical Journal International. Volume 191 (2), 2012, pp. 481-490, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1365-246X.2012.05662.x .