It's slightly angled into the North American Plate.
The Nafta 500's front and rear fascias were modified for American plate proportions.
"The American plate is totally full, and the same is true of the Europeans".
Candidates include the Eurasian plate, the North American plate, the Okhotsk plate, and the Honshu microplate.
The Juan de Fuca Plate, east of this spreading centre, is subducting under the North American Plate.
The rupture extended nearly 500 km along the megathrust boundary that separates the Nazca plate from the South American plate.
Similarly, the volcanoes of the Andes are related to the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate.
Meat, normally at the center of the American plate, was in fact missing from the lunch menu altogether.
(Some geologists argue that this portion of the Eurasian Plate is actually a fragment of the North American Plate called the Okhotsk microplate).
The Peru-Chile Trench marks the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate and lies offshore from an area of active volcanism.
In this case, the Nazca plate is sliding eastward beneath the South American plate at a rate of about three inches a year.
