Easter Plate is a tectonic microplate located to the west of Easter Island off the west coast of South America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bordering...
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List of tectonic plates (redirect from Microplate (geology))
south Pacific west of Fiji Easter Microplate – Very small tectonic plate to the west of Easter Island Galápagos Microplate – Very small tectonic plate...
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Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific...
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Moai (redirect from Easter Island Head)
are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half...
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anomalous microplate exists, the Galapagos Microplate at the northern junction and the Juan Fernandez Microplate at the southern junction. The Easter Island...
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709–723. "'Furry lobster' found in Pacific". BBC News. March 8, 2006. "Easter Microplate Expedition March 12–April 6, 2005". Monterey Bay Aquarium Research...
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Rise, Easter Island lies within the Nazca Plate, bordering the Easter Microplate. The Nazca-Pacific relative plate movement due to the seafloor spreading...
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Juan Fernández Plate (redirect from Juan Fernández Microplate)
East Pacific Rise (EPR) between the Easter and Juan Fernandez microplates. The first sonar mapping of the JF Microplate was performed in 1983. Shortly after...
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the East Pacific Rise is interrupted by a trapezoid microplate known as the Easter Microplate about 400 kilometres (250 mi) wide. Seafloor spreading...
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foot or at the summit. The region northwest of Easter Island is characterized by the Easter Microplate, a plate set within the East Pacific Rise. Two...
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