- Auckland
Beach near Laurieton, New South Wales, Australia in 2002- Birch Bay
Birch Bay on a November day
Birds flying down Ocean Beach
Columbia River Basalt Group map shows main regions of basalt exposure in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada, USA. (usgs.gov)- Deception Pass
- down the Pacific coast
- Flag Rock
- Hawaii
- In the nearby Pacific Ocean, roughly 170 miles (270 km) west of Vashon Island, lies the 700-mile (1,130 km) tectonic boundary known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and as such, Vashon Island is one of many areas at risk for earthquakes or related natural disasters.
- Japan
- Laurieton
- Ocean Beach
- Pacific Ocean (Wikipedia)
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east.
- Pacific Plate
- Panthalassa was a hemisphere-sized ocean, much larger than the modern Pacific.
- Port Macquarie
- Puget Sound
Roadside view along Willapa Bay- Salish Sea
- San Diego
- Seal Rocks
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
Sutro Baths at Ocean Beach- Sydney
- Tahiti
- The Farallon tectonic plate that formed a part of the Pacific Ocean floor (separate from the Pacific plate) inched eastward toward North America about 35 million years ago and most of the sea floor subducted beneath the continental land mass of the North America plate.
- The Pacific Ocean was born 750 million years ago at the breakup of Rodinia, although it is generally called the Panthalassa until the breakup of Pangea, about 200 million years ago.
- Tokyo
- up the Pacific coast
- Washington
- West Coast of the United States
- Willapa Bay
- Willapa River
