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is the india plate oceanic or continental?
I've seen quite a few animations of continental drift that show the Indian plate moving at an incredible rate from the southern hemisphere to plow into the Eurasian continent (such as this one). Is its speed of movement as remarkable as it seems? Why did "India" appear to move so much more quickly than other proto-landmasses? Is this discussed anywhere on Wikipedia? (I can't seem to find any information talking about it extensively.) RobertM525 21:55, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Article states India began colliding with Asia between 50 and 55 million years ago yet map shows India thousands of miles south at that time. Tiddy ( talk) 03:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
What major landmasses and bodies of water are contained on the Indian Plate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.92.184 ( talk) 17:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I've changed the article to reflect that it is in fact one of the 13 major plates, not one of the 39 minor plates. Robbiemuffin ( talk) 04:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
What type of boundaries are on the edges of the Indian Plate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.92.184 ( talk) 17:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Is this a real plate? I was taught at uni that India was on the same plate as Australia. The boundary with the Australian plate on the maps looks like a straight line, i.e. an imaginary line and not a real tectonic boundary. 203.38.62.211 ( talk) 20:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
-- Pawyilee ( talk) 16:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm unclear as to why this section exists. What is it trying to say about the Indian Plate, which would be the only purpose for its existence? I'm in favour of removing it as irrelevant to the article. Mikenorton ( talk) 21:46, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Plate tectonics is not my area---I'll leave it to an expert to evaluate this article [1] and if appropriate incorporate it here. It gives a somewhat different account of ref [14]'s soft collision: instead of a piece breaking off Northern Indian and travelling ahead, India collided with a string of islands, driving them into the Eurasian plate. Vaughan Pratt ( talk) 20:31, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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Can someone knowledgeable update the current thoughts on the Indo-Australian plate? On this (Indian Plate) page the sentence "Once fused with the adjacent Australia to form a single Indo-Australian Plate" may give the wrong impression that the Indian and Australian plates stuck together from the get go and just recently broke up. Instead, the Indo-Australian Plate gives a date of a fusion some 43 million years ago, with a link to a non-scientific website. The video on this LifeScience page from a 2013 research paper suggests the Indian and Australian plates broke apart around 140 million years ago, near-simultaneously with their break from Antarctica. The possible later fusion is not discussed it seems. Thanks! Afasmit ( talk) 21:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Great inconsistency throughout the article as to whether to treat this as a compound proper noun or not. Can we agree one or the other and apply it consistently? Kevin McE ( talk) 11:26, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Plate types in it's main part of continental of indian plate 161.49.97.247 ( talk) 09:53, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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is the india plate oceanic or continental?
I've seen quite a few animations of continental drift that show the Indian plate moving at an incredible rate from the southern hemisphere to plow into the Eurasian continent (such as this one). Is its speed of movement as remarkable as it seems? Why did "India" appear to move so much more quickly than other proto-landmasses? Is this discussed anywhere on Wikipedia? (I can't seem to find any information talking about it extensively.) RobertM525 21:55, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Article states India began colliding with Asia between 50 and 55 million years ago yet map shows India thousands of miles south at that time. Tiddy ( talk) 03:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
What major landmasses and bodies of water are contained on the Indian Plate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.92.184 ( talk) 17:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I've changed the article to reflect that it is in fact one of the 13 major plates, not one of the 39 minor plates. Robbiemuffin ( talk) 04:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
What type of boundaries are on the edges of the Indian Plate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.92.184 ( talk) 17:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Is this a real plate? I was taught at uni that India was on the same plate as Australia. The boundary with the Australian plate on the maps looks like a straight line, i.e. an imaginary line and not a real tectonic boundary. 203.38.62.211 ( talk) 20:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
-- Pawyilee ( talk) 16:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm unclear as to why this section exists. What is it trying to say about the Indian Plate, which would be the only purpose for its existence? I'm in favour of removing it as irrelevant to the article. Mikenorton ( talk) 21:46, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Plate tectonics is not my area---I'll leave it to an expert to evaluate this article [1] and if appropriate incorporate it here. It gives a somewhat different account of ref [14]'s soft collision: instead of a piece breaking off Northern Indian and travelling ahead, India collided with a string of islands, driving them into the Eurasian plate. Vaughan Pratt ( talk) 20:31, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
References
Can someone knowledgeable update the current thoughts on the Indo-Australian plate? On this (Indian Plate) page the sentence "Once fused with the adjacent Australia to form a single Indo-Australian Plate" may give the wrong impression that the Indian and Australian plates stuck together from the get go and just recently broke up. Instead, the Indo-Australian Plate gives a date of a fusion some 43 million years ago, with a link to a non-scientific website. The video on this LifeScience page from a 2013 research paper suggests the Indian and Australian plates broke apart around 140 million years ago, near-simultaneously with their break from Antarctica. The possible later fusion is not discussed it seems. Thanks! Afasmit ( talk) 21:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Great inconsistency throughout the article as to whether to treat this as a compound proper noun or not. Can we agree one or the other and apply it consistently? Kevin McE ( talk) 11:26, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Plate types in it's main part of continental of indian plate 161.49.97.247 ( talk) 09:53, 28 September 2023 (UTC)