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Rivera Plate
The
Rivera Plate
is a small
tectonic plate
(a microplate) located off the west coast of
Mexico
, just south of the
Baja California Peninsula
. It is bounded on the northwest by the
East Pacific Rise
, on the southwest by the
Rivera Transform Fault
, on the southeast by a deformation zone, and on the northeast by the
Middle America Trench
and another deformation zone.
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