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Juan De Fuca Plate
The Juan De Fuca tectonic plate is found on the west coast of North America. It is next to the North American plate, and according to America’s Tectonics, the Juan de Fuca plate is getting subducted under it. This plate is made of oceanic crust, but it is also basaltic in some areas. It was named after the pilot and sailor, Juan de Fuca, an explorer from Europe in the 1600s. The Juan de Fuca plate has a divergent boundary in the Juan de Fuca ridge. New material is made by the Juan de Fuca ridge constantly, which is volcanically active. The Juan De Fuca plate used to be a part of a larger plate called the ‘Farallon’ plate. The Farallon plate broke apart 200 million years ago and resulted in the formation of the Juan de Fuca plate
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