Earth:Kamchatka-Aleutian Triple Junction
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Short description: Place where the Pacific Plate, the Okhotsk Plate, and the North American Plate meet
The Kamchatka-Aleutian triple junction is a triple junction of tectonic plates of the Fault-Fault-Trench type where the Pacific Plate, the Okhotsk Plate, and the North American Plate meet.[1] It is located east of the Kamchatka Mys peninsula and west of Bering Island. Meiji Seamount is located to the southeast of the junction.
In the Kamchatka-Aleutian junction, the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench meets the Aleutian Trench. The former is a subduction zone while the latter is a transform fault in its western part.
References
- ↑ Christoph Gaedicke, Boris Baranov, Nokolay Seliverstov, Dmitry Alexeiev, Nikolay Tsukanov, Ralf Freitag (2000). "Structure of an active arc-continent collision area: the Aleutian–Kamchatka junction". Tectonophysics 325 (1–2): 63–85. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00131-1. Bibcode: 2000Tectp.325...63G.
[ ⚑ ] 56°12′N 163°30′E / 56.2°N 163.5°E
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