Table 3 Division of globe into plates and subplates

From: Global database of paleocurrent trends through the Phanerozoic and Precambrian

Number

Plate

Notes

1

African

(all)

2

Indo-Australian

(all)

3

North American

(excluding Appalachia)

4

South American

(all)

5

European

(excluding Baltic region)

6

Antarctic

(all)

7

Indian

 

8

Great Britain

 

9

China

 

10

Siberian

(Russia above China)

11

Kazakhstan

(west of India)

12

Baltic

(eastern Europe)

13

Adriatic

(southern Europe)

14

Iberian

(Spain)

15

Anatolia

(Turkey)

16

Iranian

 

17

Volgastan

(betw Black and Caspian)

18

Baluchistan

(west of India)

19

Baghdadistan

(west of Iran)

20

Madagascar

 

21

Appalachian

(Florida)

22

Greenland

 

23

Newfoundland

 
  1. Environment—The depositional environment assigned by the author of the publication to the sediments from which the paleocurrent dataset was derived. Papers where the designation of the author(s) was not clear or was equivocal were generally placed in the alluvial category. Environmental designations used in this database are defined in Table 4 (available online only).
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