Cross-section - Pacific Plate tectonics (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Cross-section - Pacific Plate tectonics

Caption

A cross-section showing how the sinking Pacific slab is stretching and pulling apart weak oceanic plateaux embedded in the Pacific Plate.

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Erkan Gün & Russell Pysklywec/University of Toronto

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