The Gorda plate, located beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California, is one of the northern remnants of the Farallon plate. It is sometimes...
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Vancouver Island, Canada Gorda plate – One of the northern remnants of the Farallon plate Nazca plate Coiba plate – Tectonic plate off the coast south of...
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American plate, and the Eurasian plate. Panthalassa's oceanic plate remnants are understood to be the Juan de Fuca, Gorda, Cocos and the Nazca plates, all...
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Mendocino Triple Junction (category Plate tectonics)
Triple Junction (MTJ) is the point where the Gorda Plate, the North American Plate, and the Pacific Plate meet, in the Pacific Ocean near Cape Mendocino...
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the Explorer plate, the Juan de Fuca plate and the Gorda plate forming respectively the Explorer Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda Ridge. In the...
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Fuca, and Gorda plates are some of the remnants of the vast ancient Farallon plate which is now mostly subducted under the North American plate. The North...
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west, and diverging from the Gorda plate. The Gorda Ridge was formed through the divergence of the Pacific and Gorda plates. Eight underwater volcanoes...
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North American plate. Along with the Juan de Fuca plate and Gorda plate, the Explorer plate is a remnant of the ancient Farallon plate, which has been...
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up gorda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gorda may refer to: Gorda, California, United States, a small town on the Pacific Ocean Gorda Plate, a tectonic...
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North of the Mendocino Triple Junction, the Gorda plate is subducting beneath the North American plate at the Cascadia subduction zone, with a convergence...
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northwestward-moving Pacific Plate and the eastward-moving Gorda Plate. The Gorda Plate is subducting beneath the North American Plate just offshore of Cape...
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experiences frequent plate boundary earthquakes near the Mendocino Triple Junction and intraplate events also occur within the Gorda plate. Due to the regional...
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Plate meetPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Mendocino Triple Junction – Point where the Gorda Plate, the North American Plate,...
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Farallon plate was subducted under the southwestern part of the North American plate. The remains of the Farallon plate are the Explorer, Gorda, and Juan...
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the boundaries between three tectonic plates, the Pacific plate, the Gorda plate and the North American plate, which meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction...
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American Plate. To the north lies the Cascadia subduction zone, where the Gorda Plate is being subducted under the margin of the North American plate. Running...
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Farallon plate subducting beneath the North American plate. Presently, the Juan de Fuca plate (with its Explorer and Gorda satellite plates) and the Rivera...
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American plate, leaving that part of the North American plate in contact with the Pacific plate as the San Andreas Fault. The Juan de Fuca, Explorer, Gorda, Rivera...
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Fuca, Gorda and Explorer Plates subduct under the continental North American plate. The oceanic Pacific plate subducts under the North American plate (composed...
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volcanism in the Lassen area is subduction of the Gorda Plate diving below the North American Plate off the Northern California coast. The area surrounding...
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of the North American Plate steeply uplifted by Mendocino Triple Junction interactions with the Pacific Plate and Gorda Plate. The Lost Coast includes...
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convergent plate boundary where the Gorda Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate, and the Explorer Plate are being subducted underneath the North American plate. As these...
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margin where two tectonic plates meet, and where one plate has continental crust and the other oceanic crust along the line of plate convergence, and a subduction...
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Fracture zone (category Plate tectonics)
4,000 km off the coast of California and separates the Pacific plate and Gorda plate. The bathymetric depths on the north side of the fracture zone are...
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Triple junction (category Plate tectonics)
Plate and the Gorda Plate. Where the three intersect is the seismically active, F-F-T Mendocino Triple Junction. The Amurian Plate, the Okhotsk Plate...
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Geology of the Pacific Ocean (section Plates)
Futuna Plate Galapagos Microplate Gorda Plate Halmahera Plate Indo-Australian Plate Juan de Fuca Plate Juan Fernández Plate Kermadec Plate Kula Plate Manus...
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Juan de Fuca, Explorer and the Gorda Plate (remnants of the much larger Farallon Plate) under the North American Plate along the Cascadia subduction zone...
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Fuca Plate and two platelets, the Explorer Plate and Gorda Plate are the meager remnants of the much larger Farallon oceanic plate. The Explorer Plate broke...
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volcanism in the Lassen area is subduction of the Gorda Plate diving below the North American Plate off the Northern California coast. The area surrounding...
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Explorer Ridge (category Plate tectonics)
Explorer plate, which together with the Juan de Fuca plate and the Gorda plate to its south, is what remains of the once-vast Farallon plate which has...
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