Pacific Plate

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Pacific_Plate

GPTKB entity

Statements (115)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	geographical region
gptkbp:age	up to 180 million years
gptkbp:area	103,300,000 km²
gptkbp:borders	gptkb:Scotia_Plate gptkb:North_American_Plate gptkb:Antarctic_Plate gptkb:Cocos_Plate gptkb:Indo-Australian_Plate gptkb:Juan_de_Fuca_Plate gptkb:Nazca_Plate gptkb:Philippine_Sea_Plate gptkb:Okhotsk_Plate
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:Hawaiian_Islands gptkb:Mariana_Islands gptkb:Easter_Island gptkb:Galápagos_Islands California (partly) New Zealand (partly)
gptkbp:discoveredBy	gptkb:Harry_Hammond_Hess
gptkbp:feature	gptkb:Baker_Island gptkb:Caroline_Islands gptkb:Fiji gptkb:Guam gptkb:Howland_Island gptkb:Johnston_Atoll gptkb:Kingman_Reef gptkb:Kiribati gptkb:Marshall_Islands gptkb:Micronesia gptkb:Midway_Atoll gptkb:Northern_Mariana_Islands gptkb:Palau gptkb:Palmyra_Atoll gptkb:Solomon_Islands gptkb:Tonga gptkb:Tuvalu gptkb:Vanuatu gptkb:Emperor_Seamounts gptkb:Kuril-Kamchatka_Trench gptkb:Mariana_Trench gptkb:Challenger_Deep gptkb:Clipperton_Island gptkb:Gilbert_Islands gptkb:Nauru gptkb:Pitcairn_Islands gptkb:San_Andreas_Fault gptkb:Wake_Island gptkb:Alaska-Aleutian_Megathrust gptkb:Clarion_Fracture_Zone gptkb:Clarion_Island gptkb:Easter_Fracture_Zone gptkb:Galapagos_Spreading_Center gptkb:Hawaiian-Emperor_seamount_chain gptkb:Hess_Rise gptkb:Louisville_Ridge gptkb:Manihiki_Plateau gptkb:Mendocino_Fracture_Zone gptkb:Mid-Pacific_Mountains gptkb:Murray_Fracture_Zone gptkb:Osbourn_Trough gptkb:Pacific-Antarctic_Ridge gptkb:Pacific_Fracture_Zone gptkb:Peru-Chile_Trench gptkb:Revillagigedo_Islands gptkb:Roca_Partida gptkb:San_Benedicto_Island gptkb:Socorro_Island gptkb:Wake_Atoll gptkb:Aleutian_Trench gptkb:East_Pacific_Rise gptkb:Hikurangi_Trench gptkb:Japan_Trench gptkb:Kermadec_Trench gptkb:Ontong_Java_Plateau gptkb:Puysegur_Trench gptkb:Samoa_Islands gptkb:Shatsky_Rise gptkb:Tonga_Trench gptkb:Queen_Charlotte_Fault gptkb:Kure_Atoll Cook Islands Jarvis Island Line Islands Marquesas Islands Niue Phoenix Islands Society Islands Tokelau Tuamotu Archipelago Wallis and Futuna
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Pacific Plate
gptkbp:largestTectonicPlate	true
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Pacific_Ocean
gptkbp:movementSpeed	7-11 cm/year
gptkbp:movesNorthwest	true
gptkbp:subductionZone	gptkb:Ring_of_Fire
gptkbp:subductsUnder	gptkb:Eurasian_Plate gptkb:North_American_Plate gptkb:Indo-Australian_Plate gptkb:Philippine_Sea_Plate
gptkbp:type	oceanic plate
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Ring_of_Fire gptkb:Emperor_Seamounts gptkb:Japanese_Archipelago gptkb:Mariana_Trench gptkb:Hawaiian–Emperor_seamount_chain gptkb:Pacific_Ring_of_Fire gptkb:East_Pacific_Rise gptkb:Izu–Bonin–Mariana_Arc gptkb:Kuril–Kamchatka_Trench gptkb:Kyushu–Palau_Ridge gptkb:New_Hebrides_Trench gptkb:Ontong_Java_Plateau gptkb:Puysegur_Trench
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5