A microplate, also known as a microtiter plate, microwell plate or multiwell, is a flat plate with multiple "wells" used as small test tubes. The microplate...
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List of tectonic plates (redirect from Microplate (geology))
categories: major (or primary) plates, minor (or secondary) plates, and microplates (or tertiary plates). These plates comprise the bulk of the continents...
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The Okhotsk microplate is a proposed minor tectonic plate covering the Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast, and Sakhalin Island of Russia; Hokkaido, Kantō...
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The Amurian microplate (or Amur microplate; also occasionally referred to as the China plate, not to be confused with the Yangtze plate)[citation needed]...
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The Easter plate is a tectonic microplate located to the west of Easter Island off the west coast of South America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,...
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Plate reader (redirect from Microplate reader)
Plate readers, also known as microplate readers or microplate photometers, are instruments which are used to detect biological, chemical or physical events...
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Puerto Rico–Virgin Islands microplate (PRVI), also known as the Puerto Rico–Virgin Islands block, is a tectonic microplate formed at the boundary zone...
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The Victoria microplate or Victoria plate is a small tectonic plate in East Africa. It is bounded on all sides by parts of the active East African Rift...
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The Galápagos microplate (GMP) is a geological feature of the oceanic crust located at 1°50' N, offshore of the west coast of Colombia. The GMP is collocated...
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The Gonâve microplate forms part of the boundary between the North American plate and the Caribbean plate. It is bounded to the west by the Mid-Cayman...
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Juan Fernández plate (redirect from Juan Fernández Microplate)
small tectonic plate (microplate) in the Pacific Ocean. With a surface area of approximately 10×105 km2 (3.9×105 sq mi), the microplate is located between...
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Somali plate (redirect from Somalia microplate)
northern West African Rift System around 20 million years ago. Victoria microplate Alden, Andrew (2017-03-17) Here Are the Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric...
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separate, smaller microplate has also been proposed , bounded to the north by an incipient rift structure. The main (southern) microplate rotates clockwise...
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The North Galapagos microplate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of South America north of the Galápagos Islands.3°45′N 101°45′W / 3.75°N...
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Azores Plateau (redirect from Azores Microplate)
The Azores Plateau or Azores Platform is an oceanic plateau encompassing the Azores archipelago and the Azores triple junction in the North Atlantic Ocean...
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junctions an anomalous microplate exists, the Galapagos microplate at the northern junction and the Juan Fernandez microplate at the southern junction...
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Burma plate (redirect from Burma Microplate)
The Burma plate is a minor tectonic plate or microplate located in Southeast Asia, sometimes considered a part of the larger Eurasian plate. The Andaman...
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Chile Ridge (redirect from Chiloé microplate)
northward movement of Chiloe microplate. The Liquiñe-Ofqui fault system is a right-lateral strike-slip fault separating Chiloe Microplate and the South America...
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Geological deformation of Iceland (redirect from Hreppar Microplate)
along the plate boundary is identified as a microplate, and is named the Hreppar block or Hreppar microplate.: 53 Its current independent motion to the...
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Arabian plate (redirect from Arabian microplate)
The Arabian plate is a minor tectonic plate in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres. It is one of the three continental plates (along with the African...
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consists of three microplates, the Victoria microplate to the north, and the Rovuma and Lwandle microplates to the south. The Victoria microplate is rotating...
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Enriquillo–Plantain Garden faults running through Hispaniola and bounding the Gonâve microplate, and the parallel Puerto Rico Trench running north of Puerto Rico and...
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11–12 mm/yr. The eastern section of the trough has been named the Gonâve Microplate. The Gonâve plate extends from the spreading ridge east to the island...
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Adriatic Basin's climate. The Adriatic Sea sits on the Apulian or Adriatic Microplate. In the Late Oligocene, the Italian Peninsula first formed, separating...
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Bank, and same tectonic plate, known as the Puerto Rico–Virgin Islands microplate. Politically, the islands fall into three jurisdictions: the easternmost...
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Iberian plate (redirect from Iberian microplate)
The Iberian plate is a microplate typically grouped with the Eurasian plate that includes the microcontinent Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands...
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tectonic elements which define the subdivision into numerous smaller microplates which have amalgamated into the larger Plates. Salt tectonics is concerned...
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spreading centre the Galápagos Rise formed the eastern boundary of the Bauer microplate. The rise is made up of a series of inactive ridge and transform segments...
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Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, the Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk microplate, a microplate formerly considered to be part of the North American plate. The...
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on the boundary between the Caribbean plate and the Gonâve microplate. The Gonâve microplate is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long strip of mainly oceanic crust...
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