Moa plate

{{short description|Ancient oceanic plate that formed in the Early Cretaceous south of the Pacific–Phoenix Ridge}}

The Moa plate was an ancient oceanic plate that formed in the Early Cretaceous south of the Pacific–Phoenix Ridge.{{cite journal |doi=10.1029/2006JB004550 |title=History of the Cretaceous Osbourn spreading center |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |volume=112 |issue=B4 |pages=B04102 |year=2007 |last1=Downey |first1=Nathan J. |last2=Stock |first2=Joann M. |author-link2=Joann Stock|last3=Clayton |first3=Robert W. |last4=Cande |first4=Steven C. |bibcode=2007JGRB..112.4102D |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/34579/1/Downey2007a.pdf |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |doi=10.1126/science.291.5512.2277d |title=GEOLOGY: A Lost Plate Turns up |journal=Science |volume=291 |issue=5512 |pages=2277d–2277 |year=2001 |last1=Hanson |first1=B. |s2cid=129588292 }}{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2018.07.010 |title=Late Cretaceous oceanic plate reorganization and the breakup of Zealandia and Gondwana |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=65 |pages=31–42 |year=2019 |last1=Mortimer |first1=N. |last2=Van Den Bogaard |first2=P. |last3=Hoernle |first3=K. |last4=Timm |first4=C. |last5=Gans |first5=P.B. |last6=Werner |first6=R. |last7=Riefstahl |first7=F. |bibcode=2019GondR..65...31M |s2cid=133702326 |url=http://oceanrep.geomar.de/44380/1/10.1016_j.gr.2018.07.010.pdf }} The Moa plate was obliquely subducted beneath the Gondwana margin, but some material from it was accreted and continues to exist. Today, this material forms part of Eastern New Zealand. The plate was named in 2001 by Rupert Sutherland and Chris Hollis.{{cite journal |doi=10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0279:CDOTMP>2.0.CO;2 |year=2001 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=279 |title=Cretaceous demise of the Moa plate and strike-slip motion at the Gondwana margin |journal=Geology |last1=Sutherland |first1=Rupert |last2=Hollis |first2=Chris |bibcode=2001Geo....29..279S }}