The Okhotsk Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and Eastern Japan. It was considered a part of the North American Plate, but recent studies show that it is an independent plate. It is bounded on the north by the North American Plate, on the east by the Pacific Plate at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and the Japan Trench, on the south by the Philippine Plate at the Nankai Trough, on the west by the Eurasian Plate, and possibly on the southwest by the Amurian Plate. Categories: Geology stubs | Plate tectonics ... The Sea of Okhotsk (from the Russian Okhotskoe more) is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the disputed Russo-Japanese Kurile Islands on the east, the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the south and the island of Sakhalin, the Amur province of Siberia... For other uses of Kamchatka, see Kamchatka (disambiguation). ... The North American Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the continent of North America and extending eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ... The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean. ... The Japan Trench is a depression in the floor of the northern Pacific Ocean off northeast Japan. ... The Philippine Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Philippine Islands. ... Categories: Plate tectonics | Geology stubs ... The Amurian Plate (or Amur Plate) is a proposed continental tectonic plate covering Manchuria, the Korean Peninsula, Western Japan, and Primorsky Krai. ...
References
Tetsuzo Seno, Taro Sakurai, and Seth Stein. 1996. Can the Okhotsk plate be discriminated from the North American plate? J. Geophys. Res., 101, 11305-11315 (abstract (http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seno/Old/ok_abst.html))
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate covering Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the continents Europe and Asia) except that it does not cover the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Verkhoyansk Range in East Siberia.
The easterly side is a boundary with the North American Plate to the north and a boundary with the Philippine Plate to the south, and possibly with the OkhotskPlate and the Amurian Plate.
The southerly side is a boundary with the African Plate to the west, the Arabian Plate in the middle and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east.
The Philippine Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Philippines.
The Philippine Plate is bounded on the west by the Eurasian Plate, on the south partly by the Indo-Australian Plate, on the north by the North American Plate and possibly by the Amurian Plate, and on the northeast by the OkhotskPlate.
The Philippine Plate, the Eurasian Plate (or the Amurian Plate), and the OkhotskPlate meet at Mount Fuji.
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