North American Plate information

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 South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed...

Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate Iberian Plate – Small tectonic plate now part of the Eurasian plate Iranian Plate – Small tectonic plate including...

Fuca plates, subducting under the northern part of the North American Plate; the Cocos Plate subducting under Central America; and the Nazca Plate subducting...

in area, the Caribbean Plate borders the North American Plate, the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate. These borders are regions...

bounded by the North American Plate and South American Plate to the west (separated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge); the Arabian Plate and Somali Plate to the east;...

under the North American Plate. Along with the Juan de Fuca Plate and Gorda Plate, the Explorer Plate is a remnant of the ancient Farallon Plate, which has...

North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. It is named after the explorer of the same name. One of the smallest of Earth's tectonic plates...

is a transform boundary with the North American Plate along the San Andreas Fault, and a boundary with the Cocos Plate. The south-eastern side is a divergent...

Ridge. The western edge is a triple junction plate boundary with the North American Plate and Nubian Plate at the seismically active Azores Triple Junction...

bounded by the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. To the west it is bounded by the Pacific Plate and to the south by the Nazca Plate. The only land...

South American Plate. The East African Rift (Great Rift Valley) in eastern Africa The Mid-Atlantic Ridge system separates the North American Plate and the...

plate south of 41.6°N. Stresses from the neighboring North American Plate and Pacific Plate cause frequent earthquakes in the interior of the plate,...

tectonic plate (the North American Plate) and is part of North America geographically. In a geologic sense, Bermuda is not part of the Americas, but an...

The North Andes Plate is bound by (clockwise from north): Caribbean Plate South American Plate Malpelo Plate — considered a part of the Nazca Plate before...

The North American Datum (NAD) is the horizontal datum now used to define the geodetic network in North America. A datum is a formal description of the...

Volcanic Belt. The subduction of the Rivera Plate under the North American Plate, in the Mid-American Trench, has been the cause of the strongest earthquakes...

Kula Plate to the north, the Pacific Plate to the west and the Farallon Plate to the east. The Kula Plate was subducted under the North American Plate at...

plate, the North American plate, and the Pacific plate meet Queen Charlotte Triple Junction – Point where the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate...

the district government. Some Native American tribes also issue plates. The U.S. federal government issues plates only for its own vehicle fleet and for...

Western North America, including several tectonic plate interactions involving the North American Plate and leading to the formation of various mountain...

America, and the Caribbean. The parts of the North American Plate that are not occupied by North American countries are usually not discussed as part of...

there are usually seven or eight "major" plates: African, Antarctic, Eurasian, North American, South American, Pacific, and Indo-Australian. The latter...

It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Traditionally, for scientific purposes, the fault has been...

western boundary of the North American Plate was drawn through southern Hokkaido. In the 1980s, the boundary of the North American Plate was extended to the...

leading edge of the Caribbean Plate due to the subduction of the Atlantic seafloor of the North American and South American plates. Major islands of the Lesser...

(Eurasian plate) and North America (North American Plate) separated during the final breakup of Pangea in the early Cenozoic Era, they formed the North Atlantic...

plates are some of the remnants of the vast ancient Farallon Plate which is now mostly subducted under the North American Plate. The North American Plate...

spreading center and divergent plate boundary located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America, named after Juan de Fuca. The ridge...

years through the movement of tectonic plates, as the large Pacific Plate submerged under the North American Plate through the process called subduction...