Bird’s Head Plate

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microplate tectonic plate

The Bird’s Head Plate is a small tectonic plate underlying the Bird’s Head (Vogelkop) Peninsula region of western New Guinea, involved in complex interactions between the Pacific, Philippine Sea, and Australian plates.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Bird Head Plate	1

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	microplate ⓘ tectonic plate ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Bird’s Head Plate ⓘ surface form: Bird Head Plate Vogelkop Plate ⓘ
associatedWith	complex subduction systems around New Guinea ⓘ orogenesis in New Guinea region ⓘ seismic activity in western New Guinea ⓘ
boundedBy	plate boundaries with Australian Plate ⓘ plate boundaries with Pacific Plate ⓘ plate boundaries with Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ
interactsWith	Australian Plate ⓘ Banda Sea Plate ⓘ Caroline Plate ⓘ Halmahera Plate ⓘ Maoke Plate ⓘ Molucca Sea ⓘ surface form: Molucca Sea Collision Zone Pacific Plate ⓘ Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ
locatedInCountry	Indonesia ⓘ
locatedInRegion	Bird’s Head Peninsula ⓘ Vogelkop Peninsula ⓘ West Papua ⓘ surface form: western New Guinea
locatedOnContinent	Australia ⓘ surface form: Australia (continent)
motionType	relative motion with respect to Australian Plate ⓘ relative motion with respect to Pacific Plate ⓘ relative motion with respect to Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ
overlies	Bird’s Head (Vogelkop) Peninsula crust ⓘ
partOf	New Guinea ⓘ surface form: New Guinea region tectonic framework of Southeast Asia ⓘ tectonic framework of the southwest Pacific ⓘ
plateType	lithospheric plate ⓘ
researchField	geodynamics ⓘ plate tectonics ⓘ seismotectonics ⓘ
scale	small compared to major tectonic plates ⓘ
significance	important for understanding deformation of New Guinea region ⓘ influences regional seismic hazard in western New Guinea ⓘ
tectonicSetting	complex plate boundary zone ⓘ convergent margins ⓘ microplate mosaic of eastern Indonesia ⓘ transform boundaries ⓘ
underlies	part of the island of New Guinea ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Bird’s Head Plate → alsoKnownAs → Bird’s Head Plate ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bird Head Plate

Philippine Sea Plate → borders → Bird’s Head Plate ⓘ