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The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean plate borders the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate and the Cocos plate.
Gazel et al. (2021) define four domains of the CAVA: North American plate slivers (continental crust), the Guatemala Suture Zone (GSZ) (continental crust), continental blocks of the Caribbean plate, and Pacific-affinity accreted complexes (oceanic crust). [4] The Cocos tectonic plate is located along the western edge of Central America.
Caribbean plate – A mostly oceanic tectonic plate including part of Central America and the Caribbean Sea – 3,300,000 km 2 (1,300,000 sq mi) Caroline plate – Minor oceanic tectonic plate north of New Guinea – 1,700,000 km 2 (660,000 sq mi)
The Cocos plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.The Cocos plate was created approximately 23 million years ago when the Farallon plate broke into two pieces, which also created the Nazca plate.
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).
Over several million years, the subduction of the Rivera and Cocos plates beneath the North American plate along the northern end of the Middle America Trench formed the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt is a unique volcanic belt; it is not parallel to the Middle American Trench, and many of the main ...
The Panama plate is a south-western extension of the Caribbean plate surrounded by five tectonic plates: the South American plate, Caribbean plate, Cocos plate, and Nazca plate, and by the Chortis tectonic block. [2] The plate had once been a piece of volcanic arc that split off from the rest of the Caribbean plate between the late Tertiary and ...
Burma plate – Minor tectonic plate in Southeast Asia; Cocos plate – Young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America; Eurasian plate – Tectonic plate which includes most of Eurasia; Explorer plate – Oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada