Pacific Plate
[ puh-sif-ik pleyt ]
nounGeology.
one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four seafloor basins: separated from the Nazca, Cocos, North American, and South American Plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas Fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga Trenches.
Origin of Pacific Plate
1First recorded in 1960–65
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How to use Pacific Plate in a sentence
Colossal geological forces collided: the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate and the Farralon Plate.
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