The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed...

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and...

Pacific Plate – Oceanic tectonic plate under the Pacific Ocean – 103,300,000 km2 (39,900,000 sq mi) South American Plate – Major tectonic plate which includes...

and south. It is bounded by the North American Plate and South American Plate to the west (separated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge); the Arabian Plate and...

in area, the Caribbean Plate borders the North American Plate, the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate. These borders are regions...

the west coast of South America. The ongoing subduction, along the Peru–Chile Trench, of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate is largely responsible...

Fuca plates, subducting under the northern part of the North American Plate; the Cocos Plate subducting under Central America; and the Nazca Plate subducting...

North America alone and among the countries of Central America. Almost all of mainland South America sits on the South American Plate. South America is home...

South America, it is a minor plate whose movement is largely controlled by the two major plates that surround it: the Antarctic Plate and the South American...

Antarctic Plate is bounded almost entirely by extensional mid-ocean ridge systems. The adjoining plates are the Nazca Plate, the South American Plate, the...

In South Africa, vehicle registration plates, known as number plates, are issued by the Department of Transport in each of its provinces. Each province...

The South Sandwich Plate or the Sandwich Plate is a small tectonic plate (microplate) bounded by the subducting South American Plate to the east, the Antarctic...

Caribbean Plate and forms the Middle America Trench. Oceanic crust of the South American Plate subducts under the Caribbean Plate in the Lesser Antilles subduction...

the subduction of oceanic crust beneath the South American Plate as the Nazca Plate and South American Plate converge. These processes were accelerated...

the district government. Some Native American tribes also issue plates. The U.S. federal government issues plates only for its own vehicle fleet and for...

plates at convergent boundaries around the Pacific Ocean. These include: the Antarctic, Nazca and Cocos plates subducting beneath the South American Plate;...

Pacific Plate and the NW North American Plate that is forming the Aleutian Islands. Subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate to form...

leading edge of the Caribbean Plate due to the subduction of the Atlantic seafloor of the North American and South American plates. Major islands of the Lesser...

South American Plate, and they additionally border the Pacific Plate. The Galápagos Islands did not have any known human ties to South America during...

subduction of the southernmost portion of the South American Plate beneath the small South Sandwich Plate. The South Sandwich Islands constitute a volcanic island...

Jaya / Kosciuszko Eurasian Plate – Mount Everest North American Plate – Denali Pacific Plate – Mauna Kea South American Plate – Aconcagua The highest mountain...

deformed southern edge of the Caribbean Plate and was formed by the plate's subduction under the South American Plate. Recent studies indicate that the Leeward...

The continuously spreading Chile Ridge collides with the southern South America Plate to the east, and the ridge has been subducting underneath the Taitao...

North Andes Plate is bound by (clockwise from north): Caribbean Plate South American Plate Malpelo Plate — considered a part of the Nazca Plate before 2017...

registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian...

ago, the Indian Plate formed part of the supercontinent, Gondwana, together with modern Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and South America. Gondwana fragmented...

separates the North American from the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate, north and south of the Azores Triple Junction. In the South Atlantic, it separates...

known as gravitational slides or sliding plate force) is a proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges...

between the subducting Nazca Plate and the overriding South American Plate. The trench is a result of a convergent plate boundary, where the eastern edge...

American Plate along the San Andreas Fault, and a boundary with the Cocos Plate. The south-eastern side is a divergent boundary with the Nazca Plate forming...