{"id":19527,"date":"2024-01-20T02:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19527"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:38:27","slug":"indian-tectonic-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-tectonic-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Indian Tectonic Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Indian Tectonic Plate<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0minor tectonic plate located\u00a0in the north east hemisphere.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0bound by four major tectonic plates. North of the Indian plate is the\u00a0Eurasian plate; to the south east is the\u00a0Australian plate; to the south-west is the\u00a0African plate;\u00a0and to the west is the\u00a0Arabian plate.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>As the\u00a0Indian plate\u00a0is moves northward relative to the Eurasian plate and collides with it, a\u00a0convergent boundary is created.<\/li>\n<li>On the opposite side, the\u00a0Indo-African boundary is divergent.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0western Indo-Arabian boundary is lateral relative to each other,\u00a0giving rise to a transform boundary.<\/li>\n<li>It was previously thought that the\u00a0Indian and Australian plates formed one single plate as there is no clear type of boundary but recent seismologic evidence suggests that the two plates will\u00a0have a transform boundary, as the drift velocities of these two plates are different\u00a0even if the general direction of motion of the two plates is similar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate about 50 million years ago\u00a0resulted in the erection of the Himalayan Mountains.<\/li>\n<li>As the\u00a0Indian plate is still active today and drifts at a velocity of about 5 cm per year,\u00a0earthquakes occur in the northern part of the plate.<\/li>\n<li>Because of the low-grade metamorphism that resulted in the collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate, many\u00a0micaceous minerals are mined in the northern part of the country; in fact, India is the greatest producer of mica blocks and splitting.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Plate Tectonics?<\/h3>\n<p>Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth&#8217;s outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called \u201cplates,\u201d that glide over Earth&#8217;s mantle, the rocky inner layer above Earth\u2019s core. Earth\u2019s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere \u2014 a viscous layer kept malleable by heat deep within the Earth. It lubricates the undersides of Earth&#8217;s tectonic plates, allowing the lithosphere to move around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/indian-tectonic-plate-is-breaking-into-two-its-happening-beneath-tibet-2489741-2024-01-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian tectonic plate is breaking into two. It&#8217;s happening beneath Tibet<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Tectonic Plate is a minor tectonic plate located in the north east hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}