Okinawa plate
| Okinawa plate | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Minor |
| Movement1 | south-east |
| Speed1 | 54mm/year |
| Features | Okinawa, Taiwan |
| 1Relative to the African plate | |
The Okinawa Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres stretching from the northern end of Taiwan to the southern tip of the island of Kyūshū. To the east lies the Ryukyu Trench and the Pacific Plate. It is separated from the Yangtze Plate (sometimes considered part of the Eurasian Plate) by a rift that forms the Okinawa Trough which is a Back arc basin.
References
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027, doi:10.1029/2001GC000252. [1]
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