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Lamb waves propagate in solid plates or spheres. [1] They are elastic waves whose particle motion lies in the plane that contains the direction of wave propagation and the direction perpendicular to the plate. In 1917, the English mathematician Horace Lamb published his classic analysis and description of acoustic waves of this type. Their ...
Abbreviations used: GMP Galápagos microplate, GSC Galápagos spreading centre, GT Galápagos transform, IT Inca transform, EFZ Ecuador fracture zone, PFZ Panama fracture zone, MAT Middle America Trench. In plate tectonics, the Galápagos spreading centre, Galápagos spreading center or Cocos–Nazca rift is a divergent boundary that forms the ...
Northward propagation of the East Pacific Rise into the North American plate initiates rifting off of the Baja California peninsula. 4 Ma Pliocene Sierra Nevada begins to rise. 3.5 Ma Pliocene The Pacific plate changes its direction of motion about 11 degrees east of its previous heading, from northwest to the present northwest by north.
The initiation of the spreading between the Nazca Plate and the Bauer microplate to its west, was about 18.5 Ma ago and has been estimated to have had a spreading rate of on average 170 mm (6.7 in)/year. [4] At about 8 Ma, the western boundary of the microplate moved west with part of the Pacific plate becoming annexed to the microplate.
The North American plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.With an area of 76 million km 2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth's second largest tectonic plate, behind the Pacific plate (which borders the plate to the west).
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The orogeny is commonly attributed to events off the west coast of North America, where the Kula and Farallon Plates were sliding under the North American Plate. Most hypotheses propose that oceanic crust was undergoing flat-slab subduction , that is, subduction at a shallow angle.