The South Sandwich Plate or Sandwich Plate is a minor

tectonic plate Plate tectonics (from the la, label=Late Latin, tectonicus, from the grc, τεκτονικός, lit=pertaining to building) is the generally accepted scientific theory that considers the Earth's lithosphere to comprise a number of large te ...

bounded by the subducting South American Plate to the east, the

Antarctic Plate The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and other surrounding oceans. After breakup from Gondwana (the southern part of the superconti ...

to the south and the

Scotia Plate The Scotia Plate () is a tectonic plate on the edge of the South Atlantic and Southern oceans. Thought to have formed during the early Eocene with the opening of the Drake Passage that separates South America from Antarctica, it is a minor pla ...

to the west. The plate is separated from the Scotia Plate by the East Scotia Rise, a back arc spreading ridge formed by the subduction zone on its eastern margin. The

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are located on this small plate.

References

The South Sandwich Microplate
*Kurt Stüwe: ''Geodynamics of the Lithosphere: An Introduction'' Springer; 2nd edition (2007) p390 Tectonic plates Geology of the Atlantic Ocean {{tectonics-stub