Okinawa plate

Map of the Okinawa Plate and its Neighboring Plates

The Okinawa Plate is a long, narrow tectonic plate . It extends from the northern end of Taiwan to the south of Kyushu . To the east of the plate is the Ryūkyū Trench and the Pacific Plate . It borders the Amur Plate to the north and is separated from the Yangtze Plate (often viewed as part of the Eurasian Plate ) in the west by the Okinawa Trench , which is a backarc basin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4 (3), 1027, doi : 10.1029 / 2001GC000252 .