Scotia Plate

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #7f7f7f;">The Scotia Plate is a tectonic plate which is thought to have formed during the early Eocene when the Drake Passage was opened. The Plate was named after the Scotia Sea, which overlies it on the edge of the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. It is generally a minor plate whose movement is controlled by the two major plates, namely, the South American Plate and the Antarctic Plate. Though the Plate is formed as the oceanic crust, there is a small exception of the South Georgia Island to the southern tip of South America and its northeast edge. However, the Scotia Plate is rising at the Sandwich Islands and is accordingly pushed on the other side of the plate. </p>
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Pacific Plate

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #7f7f7f;">The world’s largest ocean – the Pacific Ocean covers nearly half of the globe. Despite being huge, it is getting smaller as the Atlantic Ocean is opening and North America and South America are moving towards the west. The Pacific Plate lies under the Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the east by three smaller plates – the Nazca, the Cocos and Juan de Fuca plates. The western edge of the Pacific Plate is subducted under the Indo-Australian, Philippine and the Eurasian plates. Due to the subduction along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, a great circle of earthquakes and volcanic activity known as the ‘Ring of Fire’ is produced. It is believed that the modern Pacific Plate was formed about 180 million years ago. It is basically an oceanic tectonic plate. Among the other plates, it is the largest crustal plate on Earth.</p>
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North American Plate

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #7f7f7f;">The North American Plate is a two-third land mass, which covers both Canada and United States. It is a tectonic plate, which covers most parts of North America, Greenland, Cuba, Bahamas and a part of Iceland and the Azores. The North American Plate which includes both continental and oceanic crust, stretches eastward to the mid-Atlantic Ridge and to the Chersky Range westward in eastern Siberia. It is believed that a piece of North American Plate was broken off and transported north, as the East Pacific Disc spread towards the north; creating the Gulf of California. The North American Plate borders the Eurasian Plate to the north and the African Plate to the south. </p>
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