India's Tectonic Plate Boundaries

 

India’s Tectonic Plate Boundaries

The India Plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. Originally a part of the ancient continent of Grondwana, the Indian Plate broke away from the other fragments of Gondwana 100 million years ago, and began moving north and carried Insular Día with It. It was once fused with the adjacent Australian Plate to form a single Indo-Austral ante and recent studies that India and Australia have been separate plates for at least 3 million years and likely longer. The Indian Plate includes most of modern South Asia (The India subcontinent and a portion of the basin under the Indian Ocean, including parts of South China and western Indonesia, and extending to but not including Ladakh, Kohistan and Balochistan.  The India plate borders the Eurasia plate on its northern and eastern boundary; Arabian plate on its, western boundary; Somalia, Capricorn, and Australia plates to the south.   

Plate movements 

Due to plate tectonics Insular India, situated over the Indian plate, split from Madagascar and collided  with the Eurasian Plate, resulting in the formation of the Himalayas. Until roughly 140 million years ago, the Indian Plate formed part of the supercontinent Gondwanan together with modern Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and South America. Gondwanan broke up as these continents drifted apart at different velocities, a process which led to the opening of the Indian Ocean.

Bordering Tectonics Plates


  Works Cited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

www.nature.com/scientificreports/

                                                                                                                                                                  

Comments

  1. yolandahSeptember 1, 2023 at 8:40 PM

    Hey there, great information on India! this is my first time making and editing a blog. Im still trying to figure out how you made the blue words that link to another website.
    Happy Blogging!

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  2. Robert RochaSeptember 3, 2023 at 11:30 PM

    Hello Daniel,

    India is actually close to the country I chose which is Nepal. Both countries share many similarities in regards to tectonic plates. For one they both are apart of the Eurasian plates, and both Nepal and India are located in or near the Himalayan Mountains.

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