Caroline Plate

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The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Caroline Plate canonical 18
Caroline Plate microplate 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf microplate
tectonic plate
boundedBy Eauripik Rise
Kilinailau Trench
linked to: New Guinea Trench

New Guinea Trench
Sorol Trough
West Melanesian Trench
linked to: New Guinea Trench
containsFeature Caroline Ridge
East Caroline Basin
Eauripik Rise
Sorol Trough
West Caroline Basin
hasBoundaryType convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
hasCrustType oceanic crust
hasMotionRelativeTo Pacific Plate
hasMotionType generally westward relative motion
hasSeismicity frequent earthquakes along its boundaries
hasTectonicSetting complex plate boundary zone
hasVolcanismType intra-oceanic arc volcanism
interactsWith Australian Plate
North Bismarck Plate
Pacific Plate
Pacific–Caroline boundary zone
Philippine Sea Plate
South Bismarck Plate
isSubductedBeneath North Bismarck Plate
Philippine Sea Plate
South Bismarck Plate
locatedIn western Pacific Ocean
locatedNorthOf New Guinea
namedAfter Caroline Islands region
linked to: Caroline Islands
overlies Caroline Basin
linked to: West Caroline Basin
partOf Pacific Ocean basin
linked to: Pacific Ocean
studiedInDiscipline marine geology
plate tectonics
seismology

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Indo-Australian Plate hasBoundaryWith Caroline Plate
Philippine Sea Plate borders Caroline Plate
Philippine Basin adjacentTo Caroline Plate
Palau Trench tectonicPlateInvolved Caroline Plate
Sunda Plate borderedBy Caroline Plate
North Bismarck Plate interactsWith Caroline Plate
Sorol Trough locatedOnTectonicPlate Caroline Plate
Eauripik Rise locatedOnTectonicPlate Caroline Plate
West Caroline Basin associatedWith Caroline Plate
Caroline Ridge locatedIn Caroline Plate
Caroline Ridge isAssociatedWith Caroline Plate microplate
linked to: Caroline Plate
East Caroline Basin associatedWith Caroline Plate
Philippine Microplate boundedBy Caroline Plate
West Philippine Basin near Caroline Plate
Mariana Plate near Caroline Plate
Vogelkop Plate interactsWith Caroline Plate
Maoke Plate relativeTo Caroline Plate