The islands are volcanic in origin, and are usually attributed to the passing by of the Nazca Plate over the Juan Fernández hotspot which would have produced the Juan Fernández Ridge that extends into the Peru-Chile Trench at the latitude of Valparaíso Region in mainland South America.

The islands have according to most geologists been carried eastward off the hot spot forming the Juan Fernández Ridge as the Nazca Plate subducts under the South American continent.

According to plate reconstructions, the island is believed to have been formed by the collision of terranes from the Asian Plate ( forming the west and southwest ), from the Australian Plate ( forming the southeast and Banggai ), and from island arcs previously in the Pacific ( forming the north and east peninsulas ).

Boats built in the U. S. have a Coast Guard Rating Plate which specifies the maximum recommended horsepower for the hull.

These plates ( or microplates ) are believed to have formerly been part of the larger Eurasian Plate, but were formed when transform fault activity intensified as the Indian Plate began its substantive collision with the Eurasian continent.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram, a prominent distiller from Waterloo, Ontario.

The valley is thought to have originated below sea level as an offshore area depressed by subduction of the Farallon Plate into a trench further offshore.

New College Boat Club is also one of the few Oxford clubs to have held both Headships at Summer Eights ( though not in the same year ), and one of only 11 Oxford or Cambridge colleges to have won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, having also won the Visitor Challenge Cup twice, the Ladies Challenge Plate twice and the Stewards ' Challenge Cup twice.

During construction of intrusions 70 and 57 million years ago, the northern motion of the Kula Plate might have been between and per year.

Plate tectonic studies have argued that during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic small fragments, or terranes, ( currently preserved at the North American and Asian margins ), were drifting across the ocean until they accreted at the surrounding continental margins.

Each of the three primary characteristics of a commercial griddle ( Plate, Heat Source and Temperature Control ) can have a range of values that affect the performance of the overall unit.

* Plate: the strip on the floor which the balls have to hit when they leave the skittlers ' hands.

Old G's have had some of their best success in recent seasons achieving two Kent Plate Titles and promotion to London League rugby in 2009.

Stretching north-west from the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge is a long line of seamounts called the Louisville seamount chain which is thought to have formed from the Pacific Plate sliding over a long-lived center of upwelling magma called the Louisville hotspot.

Pacific Oceanic tectonic plates have plunged below the North American Plate in this part of North America for hundreds of millions of years.

Boca Juniors and River Plate have played 338 games all time against each other, with Boca winning 126, River winning 107 and 105 draws.

Since the AFA went professional in 1931, fifteen teams have won national tournament titles, including River Plate with 33 and Boca Juniors with 24.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won eleven Queen's Plate races, as well as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

Plate heat exchangers have also evolved as a result of the increase of dairy farm herd sizes in the United States.

To avoid the route becoming a rat run for access to other areas of Cambridge, it is fitted with Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras to monitor traffic entering and leaving the site without stopping, and the police have power to issue Fixed Penalty Notices to drivers who are not authorised to use the route.

Crews from the USA have also become frequent winners of the Ladies ' Challenge Plate, Temple Challenge Cup and Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup.

According to the book " Mexico One Plate At A Time ," even though the dish ceviche has been a part of traditional Mexican coastal cuisine for centuries, ceviche is not a dish native to Mexico.

According to the book " Mexico One Plate At A Time " ceviche is not native to Mexico, despite the fact that the dish has been a part of traditional Mexican coastal cuisine for centuries.

According to the book " Mexico One Plate At A Time ," even though the dish has been a part of traditional Mexican coastal cuisine for centuries, ceviche is not a dish native to Mexico.

Lima had also been served by the world-famous Pennsylvania Railroad's " Broadway Limited ," a high speed New York to Chicago service, the " Capital Limited ," Chicago to Washington D. C. service, via Pittsburgh, the Nickel Plate Road's " City of St. Louis ," and " Wabash Cannonball ," and the Erie Lackawanna's " Lake Cites ," which serviced New York, Cleveland, and Chicago with direct service both ways.

Over the last 45 million years, the collision has pushed up a 20 km thickness of rocks on the Pacific Plate to form the Alps, although much of this has been eroded away.

As a four year old he won the Group 1 Mudgway Stakes in New Zealand before been beaten into third place in the 2004 Cox Plate after starting one of the favourites.

When The Battle of the River Plate was completed and screened for executives at the Rank Organisation, it went over so well that it was decided to hold the release of the film for a year, so that it could be chosen as part of the next year's Royal Film Performance ( in 1956 ), since 1955's film had already been selected.

Intelligence reports suggested that the British ships Defence, Cornwall and Carnarvon were stationed in the River Plate, and that there had been no British warships at Stanley when recently visited by a steamer.

The English name " River Plate " is not, as sometimes thought, a mistranslation, as " plate " was used extensively as a noun for " silver " or " gold " from the 12th century onwards, especially in Early Modern English and the estuary has been known as the River Plate or Plate River in English since at least the time of Francis Drake.

Most of Panthalassa's oceanic basin and crust has been subducted under the North American plate, and the Eurasian Plate.

The section from Tongwynlais to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works at Whitchurch has been retained in water and was used for fishing, but is now a nature reserve.

This site had once been occupied by the Thames Plate Glass Works.

This continental crust has primarily been subducted under the North American plate, and the Eurasian Plate.

Plate armour was used in Japan during the Nara period ( 646-793 ), both plate and lamellar armours have been found in burial mounds and haniwa ( ancient clay figures ) have been found depicting warriors wearing full armour.

For nearly four decades after the so-called " Drake's Plate of Brass " came to public attention in 1936, it was believed that the " plate " that Pretty describes had been found.

Plate appearances are also used by scorers for " proving " a box score.

Today, the term is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new separate plates.

The Passover Seder Plate ( ke ' ara ) is a special plate containing six symbolic foods used during the Passover Seder.

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

Temporary Flange Cover Plate used to cover periscope entry hole on tuyère adapter when no cylinder is installed on the tuyère.

The Norfolk Southern Railway operates on the tracks that were previously the Nickel Plate Road, the Canadian National is the former Grand Trunk Western Railroad and the Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad operates on the tracks that were previously used by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Plate switches are only used for double-flanged wheels, with wheels running through the plates on their flanges, guided by the edges of the plate and the moveable blade.

Sticky 2-way tape is used to mount the plate to the Plate Cylinder.

The term United Provinces was also used in Argentina's first title Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata (" United Provinces of the River Plate ").

Timetable and train order operation was commonly used on American railroads until the 1960s, including some quite large operations such as the Wabash Railroad and the Nickel Plate Road.

* Plate camera, early photographic cameras that used plates

* Die / Screw Plate: The die plate was used to cut threads on small screws.

Plate armour was widely used by most armies until the end of the 17th century for both foot and mounted troops such as the cuirassiers, dragoons, demi-lancers and Polish hussars.

who used to be Manta S. C. and among others were Green Cross F. C., America, Juventud Italiana and River Plate However, most inhabitants are fans of Barcelona Sporting Club and Club Sport Emelec the teams with most fans base in Manabí.

The term " Sheffield Plate " is widely used these days by those dealing in electroplate produced in Sheffield and most collectors prefer to use the term " Old Sheffield Plate " to identify the early fused plate product described on this page.

During these inter-city rivalries was born the nickname for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis-The Nickel Plate Road-which rapidly became the name most commonly used.

An 1894 halfpenny of the Key Plate issue, used in 1896.