Australian plate

Australian plate Hayden, Austin, Aaliyah

How is the plate moving?

The australian plate is moving Northwest

Earthquake evidence

The Australian plate has more Earthquakes surrounding its borders, and there is alot of earthquake activity at the north edge of the plate. Its converging with the Eruasian plate

Volcano evidence

On the north ridge of the plate there is alot of volcanic activity, due too heavy sea floor going under light crust on the surface

Sea floor age

The ocean floor around the australian continet is 290 million years old

Geographic Evidence

The elevation of Australia is around 1,000 meters

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Credits:

Created with images by Pexels - "nature australia wildlife" • Lenny K Photography - "Sydney Opera House" • NGi - "stone wall natural stone crack" • Arian Zwegers - "Easter Island, Rano Kau" • werner22brigitte - "flying seagull bird" • Thomas Depenbusch - "Australia"