Juan De Fuca Plate Boundary Essay
The Juan De Fuca plate is an oceanic plate located in between the Pacific Plate (to the west) and North American plate (to the east). The plate boundary is converging seductively under the western side of the North American continental plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. The Cascadia Subduction Zone fault is 1000 KM long that stretches from North Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. This is where the separation of the Juan De Fuca and North American Plates are. However, on the posterior side of the Juan De Fuca plate, the boundary is diverging from the Pacific Plate and at the Juan de Fuca Ridge new oceanic lithosphere is being generated. The Pacific Plate is moving northwesterly at about 3- 11 centimeters per year, while the