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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. 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.

  8. Kuril–Kamchatka Trench - Wikipedia

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    At the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, the Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk microplate, a microplate formerly considered to be part of the North American plate. The convergence rate ranges from ≈ 75 mm (3.0 in)/yr in the north to ≈83 mm (3.3 in)/yr at the southern end.

  9. 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 ...