Victoria microplate

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The Victoria plate showing its relationship to the neighbouring Nubian, Somali, and Rovuma plates East Africa Rift System GPS and stresses.png
The Victoria plate showing its relationship to the neighbouring Nubian, Somali, and Rovuma plates

The Victoria microplate or Victoria plate is a small tectonic plate in East Africa, with Lake Victoria at its centre. It is bounded on all sides by parts of the active East African Rift System. It is currently rotating anticlockwise. Its boundaries are close to those of the mainly Archaean Tanzania Craton, with the two arms of the rift system having propagated along the surrounding Proterozoic shear belts. To the northwest, west and southwest it has a boundary with the Nubian plate, to the northeast and east with the Somali plate and the southeast with the Rovuma plate. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Saria, E; Calais, E.; Stamps, D.S.; Delvaux, D.; Hartnady, C.J.H. (20 March 2014). "Present-day Kinematics of the East African Rift". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 119 (4): 3584–3600. Bibcode:2014JGRB..119.3584S. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.723.5337 . doi:10.1002/2013JB010901. S2CID   128891002.
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