The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly...

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...

Caribbean Plate, the region has more than 700 islands, islets, reefs, and cays. Island arcs delineate the northern and eastern edges of the Caribbean...

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...

the North American Plate and 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...

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...

000,000 km2 Burma Plate – Minor tectonic plate in Southeast Asia – 1,100,000 km2 Caribbean Plate – A mostly oceanic tectonic plate including part of Central...

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...

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...

Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean Sea is an oceanic sea on the Caribbean Plate. The Caribbean Sea is separated from the ocean...