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Relative velocity vectors of Pacific, Farallon, and Kula plates 55 million years ago (Black represents present-day land area). The Pacific-Farallon Ridge was a spreading ridge during the Late Cretaceous that extended 10,000 km in length and separated the Pacific Plate to the west and the Farallon Plate to the east.
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. [2] The plate first came into existence as a microplate 190 million years ago, at the triple junction between the Farallon, Phoenix, and Izanagi plates. The Pacific plate subsequently grew ...
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 ...
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 ...
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban-American actor, musician, producer, and bandleader. [1] He played Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which he co-starred with his wife Lucille Ball. [1]
The partial complete subduction and division of the Farallon Plate by the Pacific Plate, created the Juan de Fuca Plate to the north and the Cocos Plate to the south. The final stages of the evolution of California's continental margin was the growth of the San Andreas transform fault system, which formed as the Pacific Plate came into contact ...
The song "Tarantula" was featured in the video game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. [23] "Tarantula" also later inspired the release of the track "Centipede" from their spin-off band, Knife Party. At the end of the year the band filmed a live DVD on 4 and 5 December 2008, at the Brixton Academy. This was released on 17 April 2009. [24]
The initiation of the spreading between the Nazca Plate and the Bauer microplate to its west, was 18.5 Ma ago and has been estimated to have had a spreading rate of on average 170 mm (6.7 in)/year. [3] At about 8 Ma, the western boundary of the microplate moved west with part of the Pacific plate becoming annexed to the microplate.