Litosferne ploče: razlika između inačica

Te su ploče često grupirane sa susjednom glavnom pločom na karti glavne ploče. Za potrebe ovog popisa, mikroploča je svaka ploča s površinom manjom od 1 milijun km ² . Neki modeli identificiraju više manjih ploča unutar trenutnih [[Orogen|orogena]] (događaji koji dovode do velike strukturne deformacije Zemljine litosfere) poput ploča Apulian, Explorer, Gorda i Filipinskog mobilnog pojasa. Možda postoji znanstveni konsenzus o tome treba li takve ploče smatrati različitim dijelovima kore; stoga bi nova istraživanja mogla promijeniti ovaj popis. <ref>Tetsuzo Seno, Taro Sakurai, and Seth Stein. 1996. ''Can the Okhotsk plate be discriminated from the North American plate?'' J. Geophys. Res., 101, 11305-11315 ([http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seno/Old/ok_abst.html abstract] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830211129/http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seno/Old/ok_abst.html |date=30. kolovoza 2007. }})</ref> <ref>Bird, P. (2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4 (3): 1027. {{Doi|10.1029/2001GC000252}}. http://peterbird.name/publications/2003_PB2002/2003_PB2002.htm.</ref> <ref>{{Citiranje novina|last=Timothy M. Kusky|last2=Erkan Toraman|last3=Tsilavo Raharimahefa|name-list-style=amp|date=2006-11-20|title=The Great Rift Valley of Madagascar: An extension of the Africa–Somali diffusive plate boundary?|publisher=International Association for Gondwana Research Published by Elsevier B.V.}}</ref> <ref>{{Citiranje novina|last=Niels Henriksen|last2=A.K. Higgins|last3=Feiko Kalsbeek|last4=T. Christopher R. Pulvertaft|year=2000|title=Greenland from Archaean to Quaternary|publisher=Greenland Survey Bulletin|issue=185|url=http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull-gl/nr185/nr185_p12-24.pdf|url-status=dead|access-date=2009-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207074112/http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull-gl/nr185/nr185_p12-24.pdf|archive-date=2008-12-07}}</ref>