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The Yangtze plate, also called the South China block or the South China subplate, comprises the bulk of southern China.It is separated on the east from the Okinawa plate by a rift that forms the Okinawa Trough which is a back-arc basin, on the south by the Sunda plate and the Philippine Sea plate, and on the north and west by the Eurasian plate.
The geology of China (or the geological structure of the People's Republic of China) consists of three Precambrian cratons surrounded by a number of orogenic belts. The modern tectonic environment is dominated by the continued collision of India with the rest of Asia starting 40–50 million years ago.
The location of the South China Sea makes it a product of several tectonic events. All the plates around the South China Sea Basin underwent clockwise rotation, subduction and experienced an extrusion process from the early Cenozoic to the Late Miocene. The geological history can be classified into five tectonic evolutionary stages.
The Amurian microplate (or Amur microplate; also occasionally referred to as the China plate, not to be confused with the Yangtze plate) [citation needed] is a minor tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres. The Amurian Plate is named after the Amur River, which forms the border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China.
In the heart of Asia, deep underground, two huge tectonic plates are crashing into each other — a violent but slow-motion bout of geological bumper cars that over time has sculpted the soaring ...
This is a list of tectonic plates on Earth's surface. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle , together referred to as the lithosphere . The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnesium ) and continental crust ( sial ...
The Chinese Tian Shan displays lateral variations in magnitudes of deformation, estimates range from 2.12 to 21 km of crustal shortening. [12] Slip rates on NW-SE trending strike-slip faults range from 1–4 mm/yr. [ 9 ] Slip rates on WE-SN trending gently-dipping detachment fault vary from 10 to 13 mm/yr for the southwest Tian Shan to 2–5 mm ...
Obduction zones occurs when the continental plate is pushed under the oceanic plate, but this is unusual as the relative densities of the tectonic plates favours subduction of the oceanic plate. This causes the oceanic plate to buckle and usually results in a new mid-ocean ridge forming and turning the obduction into subduction. [citation needed]