Caroline Plate
The Caroline Plate is a minor tectonic plate that straddles the Equator in the eastern hemisphere located north of New Guinea. It forms a subduction zone along the border with the Bird's Head Plate and other minor plates of the New Guinea region to the south. A transform boundary forms the northern border with the Pacific Plate. Along the border with the Philippine Sea Plate is a convergent boundary that transitions into a rift.
| Caroline Plate | |
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The Caroline Plate is shown with red shading in this map of local tectonic features from Bird's 2003 model. Further definition of some of the plate boundaries implied in the map has occurred in the southeast since. | |
| Type | Minor |
| Approximate area | 1,700,000 km2 |
| Movement1 | north-west |
| Speed1 | 87 mm/year |
| Features | Pacific Ocean |
| 1Relative to the African Plate | |
The Caroline Plate was first proposed as a distinct plate by Weissel & Anderson 1978.
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