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  2. Pacific plate - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million km 2 (40 million sq mi), it is the largest tectonic plate. [2] The plate first came into existence as a microplate 190 million years ago, at the triple junction between the Farallon, Phoenix, and Izanagi plates. The Pacific plate subsequently grew ...

  3. Panthalassa - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Plate began forming when the triple junction at the center of Panthalassa destabilized about 190 million years ago. Panthalassa , also known as the Panthalassic Ocean or Panthalassan Ocean (from Greek πᾶν "all" and θάλασσα "sea"), [ 1 ] was the vast superocean that encompassed planet Earth and surrounded the ...

  4. Geology of the Pacific Ocean - Wikipedia

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    The Farallon plate subducted under North America from the late Mesozoic, while spreading between the Pacific and Farallon plates was initiated 190 Ma and lasted until the break-up of the Farallon plate 23 Ma. During the Cenozoic the Farallon plate broke up along the eastern Pacific margin into the Kula, Vancouver/Juan de Fuca, and Cocos plates.

  5. Mid-Pacific Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Mid-Pacific Mountains (MPM) is a large oceanic plateau located in the central North Pacific Ocean or south of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain.Of volcanic origin and Mesozoic in age, it is located on the oldest part of the Pacific Plate and rises up to 2 km (1.2 mi) (Darwin Rise) above the surrounding ocean floor and is covered with several layers of thick sedimentary sequences that ...

  6. Oceania - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Plate comprises most of Oceania, excluding Australasia and the western portion of Melanesia. The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of Oceania, is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million square kilometres (40,000,000 sq mi), it is the largest tectonic plate.

  7. History of comics - Wikipedia

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    A market for such comic books soon followed. The first modern American-style comic book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics (also a reprint collection of newspaper strips), was released in the U.S. in 1933 [29] and by 1938 publishers were printing original material in the new

  8. Galápagos Rise - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of Osamu Tezuka manga - Wikipedia

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    Title Year Bagi, the Boss of the Earth 1975 Baka Ichi 1971 Barbara 1973-1974 Benkei 1976 Big X: 1963-1966 Biiko-chan: 1957 Black Canyon 1951 Black Jack