Cascadia

American  

[kas-key-dee-uh] / kæsˈkeɪ di ə /

noun

1. another term for the Pacific Northwest, often used to refer to this area specifically as an environmentally significant bioregion.

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Example Sentences

This area marks the meeting point of the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone, a place capable of producing powerful and destructive earthquakes.

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At the southern end of the Cascadia subduction zone, the team discovered that a portion of the North American plate has broken away and is being dragged downward along with the Gorda plate as it sinks beneath North America.

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To better understand these deep events, the team examined seismic data from the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest, where the Juan de Fuca plate is sliding beneath the North American plate.

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Off the coast of Vancouver Island, in the Cascadia region, scientists have now seen that "train wreck" unfolding.

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The Cascadia region now offers a direct look at how that process happens: through step-by-step tearing, not sudden collapse.

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