On its western edge, the Farallon Plate has been subducting under the North American Plate since the Jurassic Period.

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Wikipedia contributors. (2023, December 13). North American Plate. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 3, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_American_Plate&oldid=1189699070

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North American Plate (Wikipedia) The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. With an area of 76 million km2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth’s second largest tectonic plate, behind the Pacific Plate (which borders the plate to the west).

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