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    the Explorer Plate from the Pacific Plate. To the southeast is another transform boundary, the Nootka Fault, which separates the Explorer Plate from...
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    American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. It is named after the explorer of the same name. One of the smallest of Earth's tectonic plates, the Juan...
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    subducted under the North American Plate. The Explorer Ridge consists of one major segment, the Southern Explorer Ridge, and several smaller segments...
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    divergent boundary with the Explorer Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Gorda Plate forming respectively the Explorer Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge...
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    Europe Juan de Fuca Plate – Small tectonic plate in the eastern North Pacific – 250,000 km2 Explorer Plate – Oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific...
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    junction where three tectonic plates meet: the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate, and the Explorer Plate. The three plate boundaries which intersect...
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    Farallon Plate was completely subducted under the southwestern part of the North American Plate. The remains of the Farallon Plate are the Explorer, Gorda...
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  • Plate, and the Explorer Plate meet Rivera Triple Junction – Place where the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, and the Pacific Plate meet Rodrigues...
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    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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  • Thumbnail for Cascadia subduction zone
    where the Explorer, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda plates move to the east and slide below the much larger mostly continental North American Plate. The zone...
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