The Pacific Ocean floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the Cocos Plate.

The subduction of the Cocos Plate accounts for the frequency of earthquakes near the coast.

The remnants of this plate on the Surface of the Earth are the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer plate in the Northwestern USA / Southwestern Canada, and the Cocos Plate on the west coast of Mexico.

The fastest-moving plates are the oceanic plates, with the Cocos Plate advancing at a rate of 75 mm / yr ( 3. 0 in / yr ) and the Pacific Plate moving 52 – 69 mm / yr ( 2. 1 – 2. 7 in / yr ).

At this time, a spreading center between the Pacific Plate and the Farallon Plate ( which is now mostly subducted, with remnants including the Juan de Fuca Plate, Rivera Plate, Cocos Plate, and the Nazca Plate ) was beginning to interact with the subduction zone off the western coast of North America.

Panthalassa's oceanic plate remnants may be the Juan de Fuca, Gorda, Cocos and the Nazca plates, all four of which were part of the Farallon Plate.

Panthalassa's oceanic plate remnants are understood to be the Juan de Fuca, Gorda, Cocos and the Nazca plates, all four of which were part of the Farallon Plate.

The remains of the Farallon Plate are the Juan de Fuca, Explorer and Gorda Plates, subducting under the northern part of the North American Plate ; the Cocos Plate subducting under Central America ; and the Nazca Plate subducting under the South American Plate.

The Cocos Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.

The Cocos Plate is created by sea floor spreading along the East Pacific Rise and the Cocos Ridge, specifically in a complicated area geologists call the Cocos-Nazca spreading system.

The northern boundary of the Cocos Plate is the Middle America Trench.

The Pacaya volcano is a part of the Central American Volcanic Arc, a chain of volcanoes stretching from the northwest to the southeast along the Pacific coast of Central America, formed by the tectonic subduction of the Cocos Tectonic Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate.

Creation of the Juan de Fuca ( including Explorer and Gorda ) and Cocos plates ( including Rivera ) and of the San Andreas Fault from the Farallon plate

Detail of the Cocos and Caribbean plate s

Cerro Negro is a polygenetic cinder cone that is part of the Central American Volcanic Arc, which formed as a result of the Cocos plate subducting under the Caribbean plate, at a rate of 9 cm / year.

Volatile trenches along the Cocos plate generally have had seismic events 30 to 70 years before 1985.

The devastating 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a result of the subduction of the Cocos Plate beneath the North American Plate.

Formed by the subduction of the Cocos Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate, along the Mesoamerican trench, the CAVF runs from volcán Tacaná in Guatemala to Irazú in Costa Rica.

The Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean is subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, just off the western coast of Central America.

Also, " Isla Nublar " is intended to mean " Cloudy Island ", and Cocos Island is the only island with cloud forests in the eastern Pacific.

It has been introduced into a wide range of tropical and subtropical environments including Caribbean islands, some Indian Ocean islands ( Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Cocos Islands and the Christmas Islands ) and some Pacific islands ( New Caledonia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Okinawa, Vanuatu, Micronesia and the Galapagos archipelago )

At that time washed-up specimens were found on Cocos Island in the eastern Pacific, in South Australia and in South Africa.

The Treasure of Lima is a supposed buried treasure on Cocos Island in the Pacific left there by pirates.

It separates the Pacific Plate to the west from ( north to south ) the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Antarctic Plate.

* Another active example is the Galapagos Triple Junction, an R-R-R triple junction where the Nazca, the Cocos, and the Pacific Plates meet.

The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located between the South American coast and the triple junction of the Nazca Plate, the Cocos Plate, and the Pacific Plate.

The earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, a distance of more than 350 km from the city, in the Cocos Plate subduction zone, specifically in a section of the fault line known as the Michoacán seismic gap at coordinates 18. 190 N 102. 533 W. The Cocos Plate pushes against and slides under the North American Plate, primarily along the coasts of the states of Michoacán and Guerrero in Mexico.

In the eastern Pacific, it is known to occur from Oregon to El Salvador ( including the Gulf of California ), around the Cocos and Galapagos Islands, and off Peru and Chile.

The Territory of the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

* Private Site and most popular dedicated to Cocos Island by Ocean & Earth Defenders World Federation ( Research & Information Center for Marine and Wildlife Protection )

Omura's whale appears to be restricted to the shelf and nearshore areas of tropical and subtropical waters, with records mostly from the eastern Indian Ocean ( off Cocos Islands ), Indonesia, the Philippines, the Sea of Japan, and the Solomon Sea.

It has been recorded as a vagrant in the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, an Australian territory in the eastern Indian Ocean.

* June 4 – 21 – Led by the American zoologist and philanthropist Richard Archbold and carrying Australian Patrick Gordon Taylor as navigator, the PBY-2 Catalina flying boat Guba II makes the first flight across the Indian Ocean in history, flying from Port Hedland, Australia, to Mombasa, Kenya, via Batavia, Java ; the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands ; Diego Garcia ; and the Seychelles.

This electorate includes all of the towns and communities in the Northern Territory outside Darwin, as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands in the Indian Ocean.

* Australian Indian Ocean Territories of 40px Christmas Island and 40px Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands

The Christmas Island red crab, Gecarcoidea natalis, is a species of land crab that is endemic to Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Member for Lingiari also represents voters from Australia's Indian Ocean Territories ( Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands ), while the Northern Territory Senators represent those voters in the Senate.

* 1999-2003 Administrator ( Governor ) for the Indian Ocean Territories, Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

* Balmoral Reef Plate, small tectonic plate in the Pacific Ocean north of Fiji

The trough is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.

This left lateral-moving transform fault lies along the tectonic plate boundary between the African Plate and the Arabian Plate.

Plate tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: seafloor spreading and continental drift.

India is entirely contained on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formed when it split off from the ancient continent Gondwanaland ( ancient landmass, consisting of the southern part of the supercontinent of Pangea ).

Because the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had a long time since formation ( up to 170 million years ) to compact and become very dense ; hence its great height-difference relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted.

The island of Sri Lanka lies atop the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Indo-Australian Plate.

The metamorphic grade comprises a blueschist facies, which results from tectonic deformation by the subduction of the African Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate.

* The Baltic Plate, an ancient tectonic plate that is now fused onto the Eurasian Plate

Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc long.

Running in a rough north-south line on the seabed of the Andaman Sea is the boundary between two tectonic plates, the Burma plate and the Sunda Plate.

The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska during the Triassic period.

The Baja California peninsula was once a part of the North American Plate, the tectonic plate of which mainland Mexico remains a part.

It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

* Plate tectonic reconstruction of the opening and closing of the Valais and Ligurian Oceans, website of Christian Nicollet ( in French )

The archipelago is located on the Nazca Plate ( a tectonic plate ), which is moving east / southeast, diving under the South American Plate at a rate of about per year.