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North American Plate and Slab gap hypothesis

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Difference between North American Plate and Slab gap hypothesis

North American Plate vs. Slab gap hypothesis

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. In geology, the slab gap hypothesis is one of the explanations put forward to explain several instances of crustal extension that occur inland near former subduction zones.

Similarities between North American Plate and Slab gap hypothesis

North American Plate and Slab gap hypothesis have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): California, Continental crust, Farallon Plate, Mantle (geology), Plate tectonics, San Andreas Fault, Subduction.

California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Continental crust

Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.

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Farallon Plate

The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate that began subducting under the west coast of the North American Plate—then located in modern Utah—as Pangaea broke apart during the Jurassic period.

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Mantle (geology)

The mantle is a layer inside a terrestrial planet and some other rocky planetary bodies.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.

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North American Plate and Slab gap hypothesis Comparison

North American Plate has 77 relations, while Slab gap hypothesis has 27. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 6.73% = 7 / (77 + 27).

References

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