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    The Kula Plate was an oceanic tectonic plate under the northern Pacific Ocean south of the Near Islands segment of the Aleutian Islands. It has been subducted...
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    subducted plate. The discovery of an extinct Jurassic–Cretaceous spreading system in the northwest Pacific led to the introduction of the extinct Kula Plate in...
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    subduction zone and creating a slab window. Geology portal Izanagi Plate Kula Plate Kula–Farallon Ridge Pacific-Farallon Ridge San Andreas Fault Notes Lonsdale...
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  • The Pacific-Kula Ridge is a former mid-ocean ridge that existed between the Pacific and Kula plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Paleogene period....
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    the Farallon Plate, a portion now known as the Kula Plate. About 85 million years ago, the Kula Plate broke off from the Farallon Plate to form a mid-ocean...
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    the now disappeared Kula oceanic plate. Around 55 million years ago during the Paleogene Period, a microplate of the Kula Plate subducted below the North...
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    American Plate's subduction of the Farallon Plate (see below) and its remaining fragments (such as the Kula, Juan de Fuca, Gorda, and Explorer plates). As...
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  • Appendix:Variations of "kula" in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kula may refer to: Bob Kula (born 1967), American football player Elisabeth Kula (born 1990), German...
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    Futuna Plate Galapagos Microplate Gorda Plate Halmahera Plate Indo-Australian Plate Juan de Fuca Plate Juan Fernández Plate Kermadec Plate Kula Plate Manus...
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    the United States, were also invaded. Motion between the Kula Plate and the North American Plate along the margin of the Bering Shelf (in the Bering Sea...
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    Coast Range Arc formed as a result of subduction of the Kula and pre-existing Farallon Plates. It is most famous for being the largest single body of...
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    the Farallon Plate, a portion now known as the Kula Plate. About 85 million years ago, the Kula Plate broke off from the Farallon Plate to form an area...
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    Ring of Fire (category Plate tectonics)
    Pacific Plate was subducting under east Asia. About 70 to 65 million years ago, the Farallon plate was subducting under South America, the Kula Plate was...
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    Americas. There is a small portion of the Kula Plate in the Bering Sea. The Kula Plate is an ancient tectonic plate that used to subduct under Alaska. On...
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    American Plate in relatively shallow waters, the Aleutian Basin comprises an oceanic plate, which is the remaining portion of the Kula Plate that was...
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  • Spreading ridge during the Late Cretaceous Pacific-Kula Ridge – Mid-ocean ridge between the Pacific and Kula plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Paleogene period...
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    and separated the Pacific Plate to the west and the Farallon Plate to the east. It ran south from the Pacific-Farallon-Kula triple junction at 51°N to...
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  • The Kula-Farallon Ridge was an ancient mid-ocean ridge that existed between the Kula and Farallon plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Jurassic period...
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    subducting Farallon plate split and formed the Kula Plate to the North. This formed an area in what is now Northern California, where the plates converged forming...
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    collision as the Kula and Farallon plates sank beneath the continental edge. Slivers of continental crust, carried along by subducting ocean plates, were swept...
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    Mid-ocean ridge (category Plate tectonics)
    Spreading ridge during the Late Cretaceous Pacific-Kula Ridge – Mid-ocean ridge between the Pacific and Kula plates in the Pacific Ocean during the Paleogene period...
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    Kula is a volcanic field located in western Turkey. Kula field consists of a broad area of cinder cones and maars. It is the westernmost volcano of Turkey...
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  • within the volcanic belt was related to the subduction of the ancient Kula Plate, which moved in a northward direction about 55 million years ago. New...
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    complete subduction of the now-vanished Kula Plate under North America. The present subduction of the Pacific Plate in southern Alaska has been going on...
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    converging plates as the subducting slab dives beneath the overriding plate. The Aleutian island arc formed ~50-55 ma as a result of Kula Plate subduction...
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    about 56 Ma the eastern part of the Kula plate had broken away to form the Resurrection plate, with the new Kula-Resurrection (K-R) spreading ridge running...
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    altered and orange-weathering. Montana Mountain was formed when the ancient Kula Plate was subducting under southwestern Yukon during the Late Cretaceous period...
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  • motion of the Pacific Plate, marked by a bend in the Emperor Seamount–Hawaiian Islands linear chain of volcanoes. The small Kula plate, which was being overridden...
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  • 140 km2. The Mount Skukum Volcanic Complex was formed when the ancient Kula Plate was subducting under North America during the early Eocene period. Volcanism...
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    is known as Kula (Кула); in Rusyn as Кула, in Hungarian as Kúla, in Croatian as Kula, in German as Kula or Wolfsburg, and in Turkish as Kula. The name Kule...
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