Related Searches
on Ask.com
Pacific Plate
1 dictionary results for: Pacific Plate
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
Pacific Plate
–noun
| Geology. one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North 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. |
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Share This:
Copyright © 2008, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.