INDO-AUSTRALIAN PLATE

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• It surrounds Australia
• It surrounds parts of Indonesia

PLATE INTERACTIONS

• It interacts with the pacific plate
• Philippine sea plate
• Arabian plate
• Eurasian plate
• African plate and Antarctic

PLATE BOUNDARIES

• South and west sides are divergent
• Most of east and north are convergent
• Little areas in between are transform

DIRECTION OF MOTION

• It moves to the northeast
• The fastest moving plate

GENERAL RESULTS

• Created mountains
• Made volcanoes
• Caused volcanoes

SPECIFIC RESULTS

• Made the Hindu Kush mountains
• The Himalayan mountains
• Made the 9th largest earthquake
• Part of the ring of fire
• Created volcanoes in the New Guinea and the Micronesian areas

THE TILTING