Caroline Plate
E41166
The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microplate
→
tectonic plate → |
| boundedBy |
Eauripik Rise
→
New Guinea Trench →
surface form: "Kilinailau Trench"
New Guinea Trench → Sorol Trough → New Guinea Trench →
surface form: "West Melanesian Trench"
|
| containsFeature |
Caroline Ridge
→
East Caroline Basin → Eauripik Rise → Sorol Trough → West Caroline Basin → |
| hasBoundaryType |
convergent boundary
→
divergent boundary → transform boundary → |
| hasCrustType | oceanic crust → |
| hasMotionRelativeTo | Pacific Plate → |
| hasMotionType | generally westward relative motion → |
| hasSeismicity | frequent earthquakes along its boundaries → |
| hasTectonicSetting | complex plate boundary zone → |
| hasVolcanismType | intra-oceanic arc volcanism → |
| interactsWith |
Indo-Australian Plate
→
surface form: "Australian Plate"
North Bismarck Plate → Pacific Plate → Pacific–Caroline boundary zone → Philippine Sea Plate → South Bismarck Plate → |
| isSubductedBeneath |
North Bismarck Plate
→
Philippine Sea Plate → North Bismarck Plate →
surface form: "South Bismarck Plate"
|
| locatedIn | western Pacific Ocean → |
| locatedNorthOf | New Guinea → |
| namedAfter |
Caroline Islands
→
surface form: "Caroline Islands region"
|
| overlies |
West Caroline Basin
→
surface form: "Caroline Basin"
|
| partOf |
Pacific Ocean
→
surface form: "Pacific Ocean basin"
|
| studiedInDiscipline |
marine geology
→
plate tectonics → seismology → |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.