Easter Plate

Easter Plate
Type	Minor
Approx. Area	130,000 km^2[1]
Movement^1	clockwise
Speed^1	51mm/year
Features	Pacific Ocean
^1Relative to the African Plate

The Easter Plate is a small (550 km x 410 km) tectonic plate or microplate in the southeastern Pacific. The plate is bounded on the west by the Pacific Plate, and the east by the Nazca Plate. The entire plate is covered by the Pacific Ocean. Easter Plate is named after Easter Island (Île de Pâques) which is to the east of it on the adjacent Nazca Plate.

References

1. http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm

• Bird, P., An updated digital model of plate boundaries, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4(3), 1027, doi:10.1029/2001GC000252, 2003.