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  2. Pacific plate - Wikipedia

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    The plate formed because the triple junction had converted to an unstable form surrounded on all sides by transform faults, due to the development of a kink in one of the plate boundaries. The "Pacific Triangle", the oldest part of the Pacific plate, created during the initial stages of plate formation, is located just east of the Mariana ...

  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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    This plate probably broke off the Farallon plate and, when subduction in the North Pacific shifted from Siberia to the Aleutian Trench c. 50 Ma, spreading ceased between the Kula plate and the Pacific plate. [8] The Pacific plate kept growing and lineations south of the Pacific Triangle indicate the Pacific–Phoenix ridge remained a simple N ...

  5. List of tectonic plate interactions - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific plate (carrying the city of Los Angeles) is moving northwards with respect to the North American plate. The Queen Charlotte Fault on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America The Motagua Fault , which crosses through Guatemala , is a transform boundary between the southern edge of the North American plate and the northern edge of ...

  6. Galápagos spreading centre - Wikipedia

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    The western end of the GSC forms part of the boundary to the clockwise-rotating Galápagos microplate. [3] The eastern section runs for about 600 km from the southern end of the GT to the Inca Transform with a constant trend of N097°E. There are two main segments that overlap with a left-stepping offset with no transform developed at 87° W.

  7. Kermadec–Tonga subduction zone - Wikipedia

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    The Tonga plate begins 2,500 km (1,600 mi) NNE of New Zealand and stretches northward, [4] until the plate ends bounded by the Niuafo'ou plate to the northwest and the Pacific plate to the northeast. The Hikurangi Margin is the extension of the Kermadec–Tonga subduction zone further south down the east coast of the North Island.

  8. List of One-Punch Man chapters - Wikipedia

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    One-Punch Man is a Japanese manga series written by One and illustrated by Yusuke Murata.One began publishing One-Punch Man as a webcomic in 2009. [1] When the series became popular, receiving 7.9 million hits by June 2012, Yusuke Murata contacted One and proposed to redraw the comic for digital publication in Weekly Young Jump's spin-off manga website Tonari no Young Jump (となりの ...

  9. List of Chainsaw Man chapters - Wikipedia

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    Cover of the first tankōbon, released in Japan by Shueisha on March 4, 2019. Chainsaw Man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto.The series' first part, the "Public Safety Arc" (公安編, Kōan-hen), covered in the first 97 chapters, ran in Shueisha's shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 3, 2018, [1] [2] to December 14, 2020; [3] [4 ...