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The Pacific plate and other principal plates of Earth's lithosphere. 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.
Papallacta, Ecuador on 16 October 2011 The volcano Antisana seen from the hot spring of Papallacta. Papallacta is a village at an altitude of 3,300 metres (10,827 feet) in Napo Province, Ecuador. [1] Its population is 635 as of 2022. [2]
Pacific plate – Oceanic tectonic plate under the Pacific Ocean; Molucca Sea plate – Small fully subducted tectonic plate near Indonesia; Nazca plate – Oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin; North American plate – Large tectonic plate including most of North America, Greenland and part of Siberia
Patallacta (possibly from Quechua pata elevated place / above, at the top / edge, bank (of a river), shore, llaqta place (village, town, city, country, nation), [1] "settlement on a platform" [2] pronounced "pahta-yakta"), Llactapata [3] or Q'ente Marka (possibly from Quechua q'inti hummingbird, marka village, "hummingbird village") is an archaeological site in Peru located in the Cusco Region ...
Map showing the location of oceanic plateaus (in green) in the Australia-New Zealand region of the South Pacific. An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large, relatively flat elevation that is higher than the surrounding relief with one or more relatively steep sides.
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 supercontinent Pangaea, the latest in a series of supercontinents in the history of Earth.
The Nazca plate or Nasca plate, [2] named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America. The ongoing subduction , along the Peru–Chile Trench , of the Nazca plate under the South American plate is largely responsible for the Andean orogeny .
Maris Pacifici, more accurately named the Descriptio Maris Pacifici ("Description of the Pacific Ocean"), was the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed. It is considered an important advancement in cartography. This map was drawn by Abraham Ortelius in 1589, based upon a map of America from the same year that was drawn by Frans ...