Manus Plate

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Map of the Manus Plate and its neighboring plates (in French)

The Manus Plate is a tiny tectonic plate located northeast of New Guinea. It is sandwiched between the North Bismarck Plate and the South Bismarck Plate.

References [edit]

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

v t e Tectonic plates (list)

Major	African Antarctic Eurasian Indo-Australian North American Pacific South American

Minor	Arabian Caribbean Cocos Juan de Fuca Nazca Philippine Scotia

Other	Aegean Sea Altiplano Amurian Anatolian Apulian Australian Balmoral Reef Banda Sea Bird's Head Burma Capricorn Caroline Conway Reef Easter Explorer Falklands Futuna Galapagos Gonâve Gorda Greenland Halmahera Iberian Indian Iranian Juan Fernández Kerguelen Kermadec Kula Madagascar Manus Maoke Mariana Molucca Sea New Hebrides Niuafo'ou North Andes North Bismarck North Galapagos Nubian Okhotsk Okinawa Panama Pelso Philippine Mobile Belt Rivera Sangihe Seychelles Shetland Solomon Sea Somali South Bismarck South Sandwich Sri Lanka Sunda Timor Tisza Tonga Woodlark Yangtze

Historical	Baltic Bellingshausen Charcot Cimmerian Farallon Insular Intermontane Izanagi Lhasa Moa Phoenix

v t e Tectonic plates of Southeast Asia-New Guinea (Australian Plate-Pacific Plate Convergence Zone)

Large	Sunda Plate · Philippine Sea Plate · Caroline Plate

Small	West: Burma Plate · Philippines: Philippine Mobile Belt · Indonesia: Banda Sea Plate · Molucca Sea Collision Zone · Bird's Head Plate · Halmahera Plate · Sangihe Plate · Timor Plate · New Guinea: Maoke Plate · Woodlark Plate · North Bismarck Plate · South Bismarck Plate · Manus Plate · Solomon Sea Plate

Faults	Philippine Fault System · Sorong Fault · Ramu-Markham Fault · Great Sumatran fault · New Britain Subduction Zone

Trenches and troughs	Java Trench (Sunda) with Mentawai Trough · Sunda Trough · Timor Trough · Philippines: North Luzon Trough · Manila Trench · Philippine Trench · Cotabato Trench · East Luzon Trench · Sulu Trench · Negros Trench · Palawan Trench · Moluccas: Banda Trench · Ceram Trough · Ternate Trough · Talaud Trough · Sangihe Trough · Salajar Trough · Ayu Trough · West Caroline Trough · Timor: Aur Trough · Tanimbar Trough · New Guinea: Kilinailai Trench · Manus Trench · New Guinea Trench · Manokwari Trough · West Melanesian Trench · Lyra Trough · Mussau Trench · New Britain Trench (Bougainville) · Pocklington Trough

Subsea plateaus and basins	Benham Plateau · Weber Basin · North Australian Basin

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