Plate Farallon
The plate Farallon is old a Tectonic plate of the Lithosphère of the Planet Ground. The only fragments which remain of this plate are the plates Gorda, Rivera, of Nazca, the Cocos, Juan de Fuca and Explorer. It draws its name from the islands Farallon which are with broad Baie of San Francisco.
The Farallon plate was located in what was going to become the Pacific Ocean. Its borders with the other plates were made up in the West, North and the East by pits of subduction and transforming Faille S and in the South and South-east by transforming dorsal S and faults. It moved towards the North-East at a speed of five centimetres per annum approximately. It was bordered in South-west by the Plaque Izanagi, in the West by the Eurasian Plaque, in North and the North-East by the North-American Plaque and in South-east by the South American Plaque.
The Farallon plate started to disappear by Subduction under the west coast from the American continent during the Jurassic . There are 90 or 80 million years, a new East-West directed oceanic dorsal, the dorsal of Kula, separated the Farallon plate from its Nord part;: the Plate of Kula. Part of the Farallon plate is still detectable in the coat, under the east coast of the North America.
It did not comprise probably any continental part and was thus mainly made of oceanic Lithosphère.
See too
Related articles
- Plate tectonics
- oceanic Lithosphère
- Plaque of Kula
- Plaque Gorda
- Plaque Will rivet
- Plaque of Nazca
- Plaque of the Coconuts
- Plaque Juan de Fuca
- Plaque To explore
External bond
- University of Wisconsin - Rebuilding of the North of the Farallon plate and the plate of Kula
Sources
- Burke Museum - the episode of the Coastal Chain and rupture of the Geodynamic plate Farallon
- of Japan
References
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