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Encyclopedia > Gorda Plate

The Gorda Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California. It became a separate plate when it fractured from the Juan de Fuca Plate.


The easterly side is a convergent boundary subducting under the North American Plate in northern California. The southerly side is a transform boundary with the Pacific Plate along an extension of the San Andreas Fault. The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Gorda Ridge. The northerly side is a transform boundary with the Juan de Fuca Plate.


The subducting Gorda Plate is connected with the volcanoes in northern California, namely, Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak. Lassen Peak erupted in 1911.


The Gorda Plate and the Juan de Fuca Plate, are the last remaining fragments of the Farallon Plate, along with the Cocos Plate and Nazca Plate.


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The theory of plate tectonics was formulated during the early 1960s, and it revolutionized the field of geology.
Early in the plate tectonic revolution, geologists proposed that transform faults were a new class of fault because they “transformed” plate motions from one plate boundary to another.
As a transform plate boundary cuts perpendicularly across the edges of the continental crust near the borders of the continental and oceanic crust, the result is a system such as the San Andreas transform fault system in California.
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