The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly...
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Plate – Minor tectonic plate in Southeast AsiaPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets – 1,100,000 km2 (420,000 sq mi) Caribbean Plate –...
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West Indies (section Caribbean (core area))
Virgin Islands were formed by the collision of the Caribbean Plate with the North American Plate and consist of 12 island arc terranes. These terranes...
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Cocos plate to the west and the Caribbean plate to the east is a transform fault, represented by the Swan Islands Transform Fault under the Caribbean Sea...
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Atlantic Ocean rather than in the Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean Sea is an oceanic sea on the Caribbean Plate. The Caribbean Sea is separated from the ocean...
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its surrounding plates. The Panama Plate is located between the Cocos Plate and the Nazca Plate to the south and the Caribbean Plate to the north. Most...
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South American Plate at the Peru–Chile Trench. Just north of the Nazca Plate, the oceanic Cocos Plate subducts under the Caribbean Plate and forms the...
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the northerly edge is a boundary with the Caribbean Plate and the oceanic crust of the North American Plate. At the Chile Triple Junction, near the west...
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the Caribbean plate. To the west it is bounded by the Pacific plate and to the south by the Nazca plate. The only land above water on the Cocos plate is...
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Caribbean Plate, the region has thousands of islands, islets, reefs, and cays. Island arcs delineate the northern and eastern edges of the Caribbean Sea:...
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continental rock accreted on the North American Plate from relative movement of the Caribbean Plate. The Lesser Antilles are mostly young volcanic islands...
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Leeward Antilles (category Archipelagoes of the Caribbean Sea)
deformed southern edge of the Caribbean Plate and was formed by the plate's subduction under the South American Plate. Recent studies indicate that the...
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Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc that forms the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Plate. It is part of a subduction zone, also known as the Lesser Antilles...
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Puerto Rico Trench (category Geology of the Caribbean)
American Plate and Caribbean Plate to the oblique subduction zone and the strike-slip transform fault zone between the North American Plate and Caribbean Plate...
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Lesser Antilles (category Archipelagoes of the Caribbean Sea)
the Caribbean Plate. Many of the islands were formed as a result of the subduction of oceanic crust of the Atlantic Plate under the Caribbean Plate in...
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Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of West African, Creole, Amerindian, European, Latin American, Indian/South Asian, Chinese, North American, and Middle Eastern...
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the Caribbean and South American Plate boundaries. These interactions include the collision of the Caribbean Plate with the South American Plate in the...
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Greater Antilles (category Archipelagoes of the Caribbean Sea)
relative motion of the Caribbean Plate and surrounding plates. Obduction has scraped accumulated rock onto the North American plate, islands and intrusions...
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Caribbean people are the people born in or inhabitants of the Caribbean region or people of Caribbean descent living outside the Caribbean. The Caribbean...
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Together with the Sandwich Plate, the Scotia Plate joins the southernmost Andes to the Antarctic Peninsula, just like the Caribbean Plate joins the northernmost...
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Cayman Trough (category Plate tectonics)
forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. It extends from the Windward Passage, going south of the Sierra...
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parts of the plate, which sank more quickly into the mantle. 2010 Chile earthquake Caribbean plate "Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates". About.com...
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Barbados (category Countries in the Caribbean)
Caribbean islands. It lies on the boundary of the South American and Caribbean plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown. Inhabited by Kalinago...
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territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within...
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Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa. The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean...
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subduction zone, with the Cocos Plate subducting underneath the Caribbean Plate, the North American Plate and the Panama Plate. Volcanic activity is recorded...
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The Caribbean Netherlands requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates. Current plates are North American...
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The Caribbean Netherlands (Dutch: Caribisch Nederland, pronounced [kaˈribis ˈneːdərlɑnt] ) is a geographic region of the Netherlands located outside of...
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the West Indies lie on the Caribbean Plate, whereas the Juan de Fuca Plate and Cocos Plate border the North American Plate on its western frontier. The...
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This list of Caribbean countries and dependencies by population is sorted by the mid-year normalized demographic projections from the United Nations,...
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