The Nazca Ridge is a submarine ridge, located on the Nazca Plate off the west coast of South America. This plate and ridge are currently subducting under...

up nasca, nazca, Nazca, or Nasca in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nazca is a city in Peru. Nazca, NAZCA or Nasca may also refer to: Nazca Desert, an...

junction (GTJ), which is an atypical ridge–ridge–ridge triple junction. At the GTJ, the Pacific plate, Cocos plate, and Nazca plate meet incompletely, forming...

The Chile Ridge, also known as the Chile Rise, is a submarine oceanic ridge formed by the divergent plate boundary between the Nazca plate and the Antarctic...

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...

correlated with the subduction of bathymetric highs, the Nazca Ridge and the Juan Fernandéz Ridge, respectively. The thick, buoyant oceanic crust lowers...

Wellington, the idea of a Marine Protected Area on the submarine ridges of Salas y Gomez and Nazca was launched for the very first time. Then, in February 2009...

zone along this trench: the Nazca Ridge and the Juan Fernández Ridge. From the Chile Triple Junction to Juan Fernández Ridge the trench is filled with 2...

Ridge Kula–Farallon Ridge Lord Howe Rise Magellan Rise Mid-Pacific Mountains Nazca Ridge Norfolk Ridge Pacific–Antarctic Ridge Pacific–Farallon Ridge...

Island, and extends 2,700 km (1,700 mi) east to the Nazca Ridge. The ridge was formed by the Nazca Plate moving over the Easter hotspot. Located about...

aseismic ridge systems, Carnegie, Cocos and Malpelo which are on two tectonic plates. The hotspot is located near the Equator on the Nazca Plate not...

the subduction of oceanic crust beneath the South American Plate as the Nazca Plate and South American Plate converge. These processes were accelerated...

mid-ocean ridges (also called "rises") such as the East Pacific Rise, Chile Rise and Juan de Fuca Ridge. The plates that host the fractures are Nazca, Pacific...

Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is formed as a result of subduction of the Nazca Plate and Antarctic Plate underneath the South American Plate. The belt...

result of the subduction of two buoyant aseismic ridges, the Nazca Ridge and the Juan Fernández Ridge, respectively. Around Taitao Peninsula flat-slab...

American plate, the Nazca plate and the Antarctic plate. This triple junction is unusual in that it consists of a mid-oceanic ridge, the Chile Rise, being...

the outer slope will often show seafloor spreading ridges oblique to the horst and graben ridges. Trench morphology is strongly modified by the amount...

Gakkel Ridge – Mid-oceanic ridge under the Arctic Ocean between the North American and Eurasian plates(Mid-Arctic Ridge) Nazca Ridge – Submarine ridge off...

along the East Pacific Rise and the Cocos Ridge, specifically in a complicated area geologists call the Cocos-Nazca spreading system. From the rise the plate...

of the Nazca, Cocos, and Pacific plates was once colliding in various areas[clarification needed] but now is a simple RRR (ridge-ridge-ridge), with all...

between the Nazca and Cocos plates Gorda Ridge – Tectonic spreading center off the northern coast of California and southern Oregon Juan de Fuca Ridge – Divergent...

The Nazca booby (Sula granti) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae, native to the eastern Pacific. First described by Walter Rothschild in...

Sandwich Plate; the westerly edge is a convergent boundary with the subducting Nazca plate; and the northerly edge is a boundary with the Caribbean plate and...

Scotia and Caribbean margins. The Nazca plate also experiences relatively small slab pull, approximately equal to its ridge push, because the plate material...

found in the eastern South Pacific on the Salas y Gomez ridge and the adjacent part of the Nazca Ridge. Bailly N, ed. (2008). "Dactylopsaron dimorphicum Parin...

such as the Nazca–Pacific plate boundary between 29°S and 32°S. This is seafloor spreading that is not orthogonal to the nearest ridge segment. The southern...

-83.0 The Carnegie Ridge is an aseismic ridge on the Nazca Plate that is being subducted beneath the South American Plate. The ridge is thought to be a...

plate interface and is associated with the subduction of the 1.5 km high Nazca Ridge beneath the South American plate. This was a complex event, and there...

family Epigonidae found in the Southeast Pacific on the seamounts in the Nazca Ridge. On the Revision of the Genus Epigonus, Rafinesque (Perciformes, Epigonidae):...

Muraenichthys. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is endemic to the Nazca Ridge in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. It is known to dwell at a depth of...