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(Redirected from Timor Plate) Microplate in Southeast Asia carrying the island of Timor and surrounding islands

Timor plate

Type	Micro
Movement	North
Speed	44mm/year
Features	Timor, Pacific Ocean
Relative to the African plate

The Timor plate is a small tectonic plate (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. Bibcode:2003GGG.....4.1027B. doi:10.1029/2001GC000252.

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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 Bird's Head plate Halmahera plate Molucca Sea Collision Zone Molucca Sea plate Sangihe plate Timor plate
New Guinea	Maoke plate North Bismarck plate Manus plate Solomon Sea plate South Bismarck plate Trobriand plate Woodlark plate

Faults

Trenches
and troughs

Java Trench (Sunda) with Mentawai Trough Sunda Trough Timor Trough
Philippines	Cotabato Trench Manila Trench North Luzon Trough Negros Trench Palawan Trench Philippine Trench East Luzon Trench Sulu Trench
Sulawesi and Moluccas	Aru Trough Banda Trench Ceram Trough Salajar Trough Sangihe Trough Talaud Trough Ternate Trough
Timor	Aur Trough Tanimbar Trough
New Guinea	Ayu Trough Kilinailau Trench Manokwari Trough Lyra Trough Mussau Trough New Guinea Trench Pocklington Trough New Britain Trench (Bougainville) West Caroline Trough West Melanesian Trench

Subsea plateaus
and basins

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