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The Pacific Plate got it name due it its location underneath the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Plate is the largest plate because consisting of 20 percent of earth's crust and contains Continental and ocean crust.
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What is the name of the plate that the pacific ocean is resting on?
The Pacific Plate
What is the name of plate tectonic plate that anchorage locate on?
Anchorage is located on the Pacific Plate.
What is the name of the tectonic plates that lie near Samoa?
The Pacific Plate and the Australian Plate are the tectonic plates that lie near Samoa.
What is a name of a plate between the Pacific and South American plates?
it is nazca plate
Does the African plate border the pacific plate?
the African plate borders the pacific plate
What is the name of the plate that the pacific ocean is resting on?
The Pacific Plate
Name two of the tectonic plates?
Some tectonic plates are the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate.
What is the name of plate tectonic plate that anchorage locate on?
Anchorage is located on the Pacific Plate.
What is the name of the tectonic plates that lie near Samoa?
The Pacific Plate and the Australian Plate are the tectonic plates that lie near Samoa.
What is a name of a plate between the Pacific and South American plates?
it is nazca plate
What is the name of the tectonic plate in Hokkaido japan?
The Okhotsk Plate is the name of the tectonic plate near Hokkaido, Japan. Its borders are the Pacific Plate, the Philippine Sea Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the Amurian Plate.
What is the name of the lithospheric plate closest to California?
Part of California are on the North American Plate and parts are on the Pacific Plate.
The East Pacific Rise separates the Nazca Plate from the?
The East Pacific Rise separates the Nazca Plate from the Pacific Plate.
Name the plates that have created the San Andreas fault?
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
Name a plate that is entirely made of continental crust?
All major plates contain both continental and oceanic crust except for the Pacific and Nazca plates.
What is the name of a plate between the pacific and south American plate?
The plate located between the Pacific and South American plates is called the Nazca Plate. It is known for its subduction beneath the South American Plate along the Peru-Chile Trench.
Does the African plate borders the pacific plate?
the African plate borders the pacific plate
