Juan Fernández Plate

This article is about the tectonic plate. For other uses, see Juan Fernández.

Juan Fernández Plate

Type	Minor
Approx. Area	96,000 km²^[1]
Movement¹	clockwise
Speed¹	83mm/year
Features	Pacific Ocean
¹Relative to the African Plate

The Juan Fernández Plate is a small tectonic plate located at the triple junction between the Nazca Plate, Antarctic Plate and the Pacific Plate. It is moving in a clockwise direction. The Juan Fernández Islands of Chile are not carried on this plate as may be suggested by the name.

References

↑ http://geology.about.com/library/bl/blplate_size_table.htm

Bird, P. (2003) "An updated digital model of plate boundaries", Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027, ] doi:10.1029/2001GC000252.

Tectonic plates

Major	African Australian Antarctic Eurasian Indian North American Pacific South American

Minor	Arabian Caribbean Cocos Juan de Fuca Nazca Philippine Scotia

Other	Adriatic Aegean Sea Amurian Anatolian Balmoral Reef Banda Sea Bird's Head Burma Capricorn Caroline Conway Reef Easter Explorer Falklands Futuna Galapagos Gonâve Gorda Greenland Halmahera Iberian Iranian Juan Fernández Kerguelen Kermadec Kula Madagascar Manus Maoke Mariana Molucca Sea New Hebrides Niuafo’ou North Andes North Bismarck North Galapagos Nubian Okhotsk Okinawa Panama Pelso Philippine Mobile Belt Rivera Sangihe Seychelles Shetland Solomon Sea Somali South Bismarck South Sandwich Sunda Timor Tisza Tonga Woodlark Yangtze

Historical	Baltic Bellingshausen Charcot Cimmerian Farallon Indo-Australian Insular Intermontane Izanagi Lhasa Malvinas Moa Phoenix

List of tectonic plates

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