Halmahera Plate

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The Halmahera Plate is a small tectonic plate in eastern Indonesia involved in complex interactions and subduction processes with surrounding microplates and major plates in the Molucca Sea region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Halmahera Plate canonical 2
Molucca Sea Plate 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf microplate
tectonic plate
associatedWith Halmahera volcanic arc
active volcanism
earthquakes
seismic activity
boundedBy Australian Plate to the south
Eurasian margin to the west
Pacific Plate to the northeast
Philippine Sea Plate to the north
hasBoundaryType convergent boundary
subduction zone
transform boundary
hasGeologicalFeature island arc system
oceanic crust
hasImportanceFor regional seismic hazard assessment
understanding microplate interactions
hasTectonicSetting complex plate boundary zone
interactsWith Australian Plate
Bird’s Head Plate
Eurasian Plate
Molucca Sea Plate
Pacific Plate
Philippine Mobile Belt
Philippine Sea Plate
Sangihe Plate
isPartOf Indonesia tectonic framework
Southeast Asia plate mosaic
locatedIn Molucca Sea
surface form: Molucca Sea region

eastern Indonesia
locatedNear Halmahera
surface form: Halmahera Island

North Maluku Province
surface form: North Maluku
movementType convergent relative motion
oblique convergence
namedAfter Halmahera
surface form: Halmahera Island
partOf Molucca Sea
surface form: Molucca Sea collision zone
studiedIn plate tectonics
subduction zone dynamics
undergoesProcess arc–continent collision
microplate accretion
subduction

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bird’s Head Plate interactsWith Halmahera Plate
Sunda Plate borderedBy Halmahera Plate
this entity surface form: Molucca Sea Plate
Molucca Sea locatedOn Halmahera Plate
this entity surface form: Molucca Sea Plate
Vogelkop Plate interactsWith Halmahera Plate