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  2. North American plate - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. North Atlantic Current - Wikipedia

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    It transports more warm tropical water to northern latitudes than any other boundary current; more than 40 Sv (40 million m 3 /s; 1.4 billion cu ft/s) in the south and 20 Sv (20 million m 3 /s; 710 million cu ft/s) as it crosses the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It reaches speeds of 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph; 1.0 m/s) near the North American coast ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Mendocino triple junction - Wikipedia

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    This region can be characterized by transform fault movement, the San Andreas also by transform strike slip movement, and the Cascadia subduction zone by a convergent plate boundary subduction movement. The Gorda plate is subducting, towards N50ºE, under the North American plate at 2.5–3 cm/yr, and is simultaneously converging obliquely ...

  6. Plate tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Plate motion based on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite data from NASA JPL. Each red dot is a measuring point and vectors show direction and magnitude of motion. Tectonic plates are able to move because of the relative density of oceanic lithosphere and the relative weakness of the asthenosphere.

  7. Episodic tremor and slip - Wikipedia

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    The Juan de Fuca plate is subducting northeastward under the North American plate. Nonvolcanic, episodic tremor was first identified in southwest Japan in 2002. [ 2 ] Shortly afterwards, the Geological Survey of Canada coined the term "episodic tremor and slip" to characterize observations of GPS measurements in the Vancouver Island area. [ 3 ]

  8. Aleutian subduction zone - Wikipedia

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    Here, the Pacific Plate is being subducted underneath the North American Plate and the rate of subduction changes from west to east from 7.5 to 5.1 cm (3.0 to 2.0 in) per year. [2] The Aleutian subduction zone includes two prominent features, the Aleutian Arc and the Aleutian Trench. The Aleutian Arc was created via volcanic eruptions from ...

  9. Yellowstone hotspot - Wikipedia

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    The Yellowstone hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the United States responsible for large scale volcanism in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming, formed as the North American tectonic plate moved over it. It formed the eastern Snake River Plain through a succession of caldera-forming eruptions.