<Tr> <Th> Features </Th> <Td> Indian Ocean, Himalayas </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Relative to the African Plate </Td> </Tr> <P> The Indian Plate or India Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator in the eastern hemisphere . Originally a part of the ancient continent of Gondwana, India broke away from the other fragments of Gondwana 100 million years ago and began moving north . Once fused with the adjacent Australia to form a single Indo - Australian Plate, recent studies suggest that India and Australia have been separate plates for at least 3 million years and likely longer . The Indian plate includes most of South Asia--i.e. the Indian subcontinent--and a portion of the basin under the Indian Ocean, including parts of South China and western Indonesia, and extending up to but not including Ladakh, Kohistan and Balochistan . </P> <P> Until roughly 140 million years ago, the Indian Plate formed part of the supercontinent Gondwana together with modern Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and South America . Gondwana broke up as these continents drifted apart at different velocities, a process which led to the opening of the Indian Ocean . </P>

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