Intermontane Plate

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title: Intermontane Plate
text: The Intermontane Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate that lay on the west coast of North America about 195 million years ago. The Intermontane Plate was surrounded by a chain of volcanic islands called the Intermontane Islands, which had been accumulating as a volcanic chain in the Pacific Ocean since the Triassic period, beginning around 245 million years ago. The volcanism records yet another subduction zone. Beneath the far edge of the Intermontane microplate, another plate called the
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description: Ancient oceanic tectonic plate on the west coast of North America about 195 million years ago
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date modified: 2018-10-17T10:54:15Z
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