Woodlark Plate

Woodlark Plate
Type	Minor
Movement^1	northwest
Speed^1	58 mm/year
Features	New Guinea, Pacific Ocean
^1Relative to the African Plate

The Woodlark Plate is a small tectonic plate located in the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. The Caroline plate subducts along its northern border while the Maoke Plate converges on the west, the Australian plate converges on the south, and on the east an undefined compressive zone which may be a transform fault marking the boundary with the adjoining Solomon Sea Plate.

See also

• Woodlark Basin

References

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