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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Pacif′ic Plate′, - Geologyone of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins;
separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.
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