JuandeFucaPlate

Juan de Fuca Plate The Juan de Fuca Plate arises from the Juan de Fuca ridge. It has boundaries with the North American Plate and The Pacific Plate. It also has boudaries with the Nootka Fualt and the Blanco Fracture Zone. The Juan de Fuca plate is named after the explore (any guesses?) Juan de Fuca.
 * __North American Plate Bounday:__** This is a subduction zone; the Juan de Fuca Plate was part of the one vast Farallon Plate, but now completely subducted under the North American Plate. This boundary is held to the north, northeast, and east of the Juan de Fuca Plate.
 * __Pacific Plate Boundary:__** This boundary is held to the east, southeast, and south of the Juan de Fuca Plate. This is a volcanic divergent zone for the Juan de Fuca Plate.
 * __Volcanic Ranges:__** The subducting of the Farrallon Plate has formed the volcanic Cascade Range, The Cascade Volcanoes, and The Pacific Volcanic Range, which, as you can guess, is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate under the North American Plate has created some of the world's largest stratovolcanoes such as:
 * **Mount St. Helens 1980-** erupted because of the subduction zone created by the Juan de Fuca Plate under the North american Plate. It is considered to be a stratovolcano.[[image:mt-st-helens-before.jpg align="center"]]
 * **Mount Rainer:** This still active, steam emmitting volcanoe last erupted in the 1800s.
 * **Mount Shasta:** Another active volcanoe in the Cascade range has not erupted since 1786.
 * __Earthquakes:__** The last earthquake of the Juan de Fuca Plate was recorded by Japan. The records say that the earthquake took place in the evening of Tuesday, January 16, 1700. (wow, that's a long time ago!!)
 * __Sites Used:__**
 * [|**www.google.com**]
 * [|**www.wikipedia.com**]
 * **[|www.uoregon.edu/~tstaffor/geo/geofinalproj.html]**
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