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Meaning of "pacific plate"

The Pacific Plate is one of the major tectonic plates on Earth. It is an oceanic plate located beneath the Pacific Ocean, and it is constantly in motion, interacting with other tectonic plates. The movements of the Pacific Plate are responsible for various geological activities, including earthquakes and the formation of volcanic arcs

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Pushed by the pacific plate.
Pacific plate boundary.
Sinking pacific plate.
The plate is moving easterly along with the Pacific plate.
When the Pacific plate is scraped against it.
Fiordland sits upon on the Pacific plate.
The whole Pacific plate is destabilising.
Use this data to determine the speed of the Pacific plate.
Pacific Plate slipped under the edge of the Philippine.
Km depth which is the approximate depth of subducted Pacific plate at that location.
The Pacific plate is moving.
The northeasterly side is a complex but generally convergent boundary with the Pacific Plate.
It is formed by the Pacific plate subducting under the Australian plate.
Bird considers it to be unconnected to the Pacific Plate.
This earthquake occurred where the Pacific Plate is subducting under the plate beneath northern Honshu.

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These volcanoes were formed at hot spots in the Pacific Plate.
The whole Pacific Plate is destabilizing.
The mountains are therefore part of the Pacific Plate.
Pacific Plate are pushed under the Eurasian plate.
New volcano discovered in the oldest section of the Pacific Plate.
The whole Pacific plate.
A transform boundary forms the northern border with the Pacific Plate.
The Pacific Plate contains an interior hot spot forming the Hawaiian Islands.
It is due to the subduction of the Pacific plate below Japan islands.
Hillis and Müller consider it to be moving in unison with the Pacific Plate.
This is the result of the Pacific Plate subducting under the Okhotsk Plate.
The Philippine plate is younger and smaller than the Pacific plate.
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
The earthquakes in this area are triggered by the Australian Plate subducting the Pacific plate.
The volcano was created by a subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Australian Plate.
The oceanic Pacific Plate moves under the continental Okhotsk Plate to the north.
This earthquake occurred on the subduction zone boundary where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath Japan.
A subduction zone where the Pacific Plate is being subducted under the Philippine Sea Plate.
The seafloor is part of the Pacific Plate.
As the pacific plate moves across this hot spot, successive volcanic structures are built.
The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Gorda Ridge.
Offshore, the Pacific plate is moving towards us.
Fiji lies in a tectonically complex area between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate.
They lie above a subduction zone between the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate.
The Manila Trench is where the southeastern part of Eurasian plate meets the Pacific plate.
Island- an island formed there then Pacific plate kept moving to the northwest.
Speaking tectonic terms, a lot of things going on in the north-west Pacific plate.
Thesephenomenalconvection currents force the Pacific Plate into its neighbors, driving the process of subduction.
A small, young volcano has been discovered in the oldest section of the Pacific plate.
The motion deduced for the Pacific plate agrees with the palaeomagnetic studies of seamounts4.
Subduction zone offshore, where the Pacific Plate is passing.
The Pacific Plate slides beneath these other plates, plunging into the earth at a steep angle.
The southerly side is a transform boundary with the Pacific Plate along the Mendocino Fault.
The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest at a speed of between 7.
It means we have 3 days to stop the Pacific plate from moving.

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