North American tectonic plate

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	geographical region
gptkbp:age	varies from Jurassic to present
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:North_American_Plate
gptkbp:area	about 75 million km²
gptkbp:borders	gptkb:Eurasian_Plate gptkb:Cocos_Plate gptkb:Juan_de_Fuca_Plate gptkb:Nazca_Plate gptkb:Pacific_Plate gptkb:Caribbean_Plate gptkb:African_Plate
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:Aleutian_Islands gptkb:Appalachian_Mountains gptkb:Baffin_Bay gptkb:Baja_California gptkb:Cuba gptkb:Gulf_of_Mexico gptkb:Hudson_Bay gptkb:Labrador_Sea gptkb:Mississippi_River_Basin gptkb:Rocky_Mountains gptkb:Hispaniola_(part) gptkb:Iceland_(part) gptkb:Mid-Atlantic_Ridge_(western_part) gptkb:Canadian_Shield gptkb:Great_Plains gptkb:San_Andreas_Fault gptkb:Yucatán_Peninsula gptkb:Florida_Peninsula
gptkbp:covers	gptkb:Greenland gptkb:North_America parts of the Atlantic Ocean parts of the Arctic Ocean parts of Siberia parts of the Caribbean Sea
gptkbp:discoveredBy	Alfred Wegener (theory of plate tectonics)
gptkbp:earthquakesOccur	gptkb:Alaska gptkb:California gptkb:Mexico gptkb:Caribbean_region
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	North American tectonic plate
gptkbp:movementSpeed	about 2.3 cm per year
gptkbp:movesDirection	west-southwest
gptkbp:namedAfter	gptkb:North_America
gptkbp:partOf	Earth's lithosphere
gptkbp:riftZone	gptkb:Mid-Atlantic_Ridge
gptkbp:subductionZone	gptkb:Puerto_Rico_Trench gptkb:Cascadia_Subduction_Zone
gptkbp:type	major tectonic plate
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Davis_Strait_Ridge
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6