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Pacific Plate, the Glossary

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.^[1]

58 relations: Aleutian Arc, Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Trench, Alpine Fault, Antarctic Plate, Baja California, Baja California peninsula, Bird's Head Plate, California, Caroline Plate, Cocos Plate, Continental crust, Convergent boundary, Cretaceous, Divergent boundary, Drake Passage, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, East Pacific Rise, Explorer Plate, Explorer Ridge, Farallon Plate, Geologic map, Geological Society of America, Gorda Plate, Gorda Ridge, Hawaiian Islands, Hotspot (geology), Indo-Australian Plate, Izanagi Plate, Japan Trench, Juan de Fuca Plate, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Kermadec Trench, Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mariana Trench, Nazca Plate, North American Plate, North Bismarck Plate, Oceanic crust, Oceanic trench, Okhotsk microplate, Pacific Ocean, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, Panthalassa, Philippine Sea Plate, Phoenix Plate, Plate tectonics, Puysegur Trench, Ring of Fire, ... Expand index (8 more) »
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Aleutian Arc

The Aleutian Arc is a large volcanic arc of islands extending from the Southwest tip of the U.S. state of Alaska to the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Russian Federation.

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The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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Aleutian Trench

The Aleutian Trench (or Aleutian Trough) is an oceanic trench along a convergent plate boundary which runs along the southern coastline of Alaska and the Aleutian islands.

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Alpine Fault

The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about.

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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. Pacific Plate and Antarctic Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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Baja California peninsula

The Baja California peninsula (lit) is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico.

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Bird's Head Plate

The Bird's Head Plate is a minor tectonic plate incorporating the Bird's Head Peninsula, at the western end of the island of New Guinea. Pacific Plate and Bird's Head Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Caroline Plate

The Caroline Plate is a minor tectonic plate that straddles the Equator in the eastern hemisphere located north of New Guinea. Pacific Plate and Caroline Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Cocos Plate

The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it. Pacific Plate and Cocos Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Continental crust

Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.

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Convergent boundary

A convergent boundary (also known as a destructive boundary) is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Divergent boundary

In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

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Drake Passage

The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and other planets, including extrasolar ones.

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East Pacific Rise

The East Pacific Rise (EPR) is a mid-ocean rise (usually termed an oceanic rise and not a mid-ocean ridge due to its higher rate of spreading that results in less elevation increase and more regular terrain), at a divergent tectonic plate boundary, located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Plate and East Pacific Rise are geology of California.

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Explorer Plate

The Explorer Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, which is partially subducted under the North American Plate. Pacific Plate and Explorer Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Explorer Ridge

The Explorer Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located about west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Farallon Plate

The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate. Pacific Plate and Farallon Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Geologic map

A geologic map or geological map is a special-purpose map made to show various geological features.

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Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.

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Gorda Plate

The Gorda Plate, located beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California, is one of the northern remnants of the Farallon Plate. Pacific Plate and Gorda Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Gorda Ridge

The Gorda Ridge (41°36'19.6"N 127°22'03.1"W), aka Gorda Ridges tectonic spreading center, is located roughly off the northern coast of California and southern Oregon.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Hotspot (geology)

In geology, hotspots (or hot spots) are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle.

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Indo-Australian Plate

The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and the surrounding ocean and extends north-west to include the Indian subcontinent and the adjacent waters. Pacific Plate and Indo-Australian Plate are geology of New Zealand and geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Izanagi Plate

The Izanagi Plate (named after the Shinto god Izanagi) was an ancient tectonic plate, which began subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate 130–100 Ma (million years ago). Pacific Plate and Izanagi Plate are Natural history of Japan.

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Japan Trench

The Japan Trench is an oceanic trench part of the Pacific Ring of Fire off northeast Japan.

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Juan de Fuca Plate

The Juan de Fuca Plate is a small tectonic plate (microplate) generated from the Juan de Fuca Ridge that is subducting beneath the northerly portion of the western side of the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. Pacific Plate and Juan de Fuca Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Juan de Fuca Ridge

The Juan de Fuca Ridge is a mid-ocean spreading center and divergent plate boundary located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America, named after Juan de Fuca.

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Kermadec Trench

The Kermadec Trench is a linear ocean trench in the south Pacific Ocean.

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Kuril–Kamchatka Trench

The Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench (Курило-Камчатский жёлоб, Kurilo-Kamchatskii Zhyolob) is an oceanic trench in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Pacific Plate and Kuril–Kamchatka Trench are geology of the Russian Far East.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest.

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Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.

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Nazca Plate

The Nazca Plate or Nasca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America. Pacific Plate and Nazca Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean and Natural history of Oceania.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. Pacific Plate and north American Plate are geology of California and geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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North Bismarck Plate

The North Bismarck Plate is a small tectonic plate located in the Bismarck Sea off the northeast coast of New Guinea. Pacific Plate and north Bismarck Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Oceanic crust

Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.

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Oceanic trench

Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor.

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Okhotsk microplate

The Okhotsk microplate is a proposed minor tectonic plate covering the Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast, and Sakhalin Island of Russia; Hokkaido, Kantō and Tōhoku regions of Japan; the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the disputed Kuril Islands. Pacific Plate and Okhotsk microplate are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pacific-Antarctic Ridge

The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR, Antarctic Pacific Ridge, South Pacific Rise, South Pacific Ridge) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific Ocean, separating the Pacific Plate from the Antarctic Plate.

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Panthalassa

Panthalassa, also known as the Panthalassic Ocean or Panthalassan Ocean (from Greek πᾶν "all" and θάλασσα "sea"), was the vast superocean that encompassed planet Earth and surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, the latest in a series of supercontinents in the history of Earth.

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Philippine Sea Plate

The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines. Pacific Plate and Philippine Sea Plate are geology of the Pacific Ocean, Natural history of Japan and Natural history of Oceania.

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Phoenix Plate

The Phoenix Plate (also known as the Aluk Plate or Drake Plate) was a tectonic plate that existed during the early Paleozoic through late Cenozoic time.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

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Puysegur Trench

The deep Puysegur Trench is a deep cleft in the floor of the south Tasman Sea formed by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate under the Pacific Plate to the south of New Zealand.

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Ring of Fire

The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. Pacific Plate and Ring of Fire are geology of the Pacific Ocean.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.

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Solomon Islands (archipelago)

The Solomon Islands (archipelago) is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).

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Southern California

Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Tonga Trench

The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Transform fault

A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal.

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Triple junction

A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet.

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Zealandia

Zealandia (pronounced), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui (Māori) or Tasmantis (from Tasman Sea), is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83–79 million years ago. Pacific Plate and Zealandia are geology of New Zealand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Plate

Also known as Pacific (plate), Pacific tectonic plate.

, San Andreas Fault, Solomon Islands (archipelago), Southeast Alaska, Southern California, Tonga Trench, Transform fault, Triple junction, Zealandia.

Pacific Plate, the Glossary

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See also

Geology of New Zealand

Geology of the Russian Far East

Natural history of Hawaii

Natural history of Japan

Natural history of North America

Natural history of Oceania

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