Timor Plate

Timor Plate

Type	Minor
Movement¹	north
Speed¹	44mm/year
Features	Timor, Pacific Ocean
¹Relative to the African Plate

The Timor Plate is a microplate in southeast Asia carrying the island of Timor and surrounding islands. The Australian Plate is subducting under the southern edge of the plate, while a small divergent boundary is located on the eastern edge. Another convergent boundary exists with the Banda Sea Plate to the north, and to the west is a transform boundary.

References

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

Tectonic plates

Major	African Australian Antarctic Eurasian Indian North American Pacific South American

Minor	Arabian Caribbean Cocos Juan de Fuca Nazca Philippine Scotia

Other	Adriatic Aegean Sea Amurian Anatolian Balmoral Reef Banda Sea Bird's Head Burma Capricorn Caroline Conway Reef Easter Explorer Falklands Futuna Galapagos Gonâve Gorda Greenland Halmahera Iberian 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 Sunda Timor Tisza Tonga Woodlark Yangtze

Historical	Baltic Bellingshausen Charcot Cimmerian Farallon Indo-Australian Insular Intermontane Izanagi Lhasa Malvinas Moa Phoenix

List of tectonic plates

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

Large

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

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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