Moa Plate

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The Moa Plate was an ancient oceanic plate that formed in the Early Cretaceous south of the Pacific-Phoenix Ridge. The Moa Plate was obliquely subducted beneath the Gondwana margin, and material accreted from it is now part of the Eastern Province of New Zealand.^[1]

References

↑ Rupert Sutherland and Chris Hollis (March 2001; v. 29; no. 3;). "Cretaceous demise of the Moa plate and strike-slip motion at the Gondwana margin". Geology. pp. 279–282. Check date values in: |date= (help)

v t e Tectonic plates (list)

Major	African Antarctic Eurasian Indo-Australian North American Pacific South American

Minor	Arabian Caribbean Cocos Juan de Fuca Nazca Philippine Scotia

Other	Aegean Sea Altiplano Amurian Anatolian Apulian Australian Balmoral Reef Banda Sea Bird's Head Burma Capricorn Caroline Conway Reef Easter Explorer Falklands Futuna Galapagos Gonâve Gorda Greenland Halmahera Iberian Indian Iranian Juan Fernández Kerguelen Kermadec Kula Madagascar Manus Maoke Mariana Molucca Sea New Hebrides Niuafo'ou North Andes North Bismarck North Galapagos Nubian Okhotsk Okinawa Panama Pelso Philippine Mobile Belt Rivera Sangihe Seychelles Shetland Solomon Sea Somali South Bismarck South Sandwich Sri Lanka Sunda Timor Tisza Tonga Woodlark Yangtze

Historical	Baltic Bellingshausen Charcot Cimmerian Farallon Insular Intermontane Izanagi Lhasa Moa Phoenix

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