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East Pacific Rise
The
East Pacific Rise
is a
mid-oceanic ridge
, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the
Pacific Ocean
. It separates the
Pacific Plate
to the west from (north to south) the
North American Plate
, the
Rivera Plate
, the
Cocos Plate
, the
Nazca Plate
, and the
Antarctic Plate
. It runs from an undefined point near
Antarctica
in the south northward to its termination at the northern end of the
Gulf of California
in the
Salton Sea
basin in southern
California
.
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