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Which plate is subducting plate at the Aleutian Trench?

Transcribed Image Text:East Pacitic
Mid-Atlantic Ridg
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Tectonic Plates
120
140
IN
iceland
Hot Spot
North American
Plate
Eurasian
Plate
Eurasian
Plate
n Trench
AleutianT
Jum de
Fuea Plate
Yellowstone
Hot Spot
Canary,
lands
Hơt Spot
San Andreas
Fault
Philippine
Plate
African
Plate
-20
Hawai
Hot Spot
Cocos
Plate
Pacific
Plate
Fiji Plate
South
Galapagos
Hot Spat
American
Plate
20
Indian-Australian
Plate
Easter Island
Hot Spol'v
Nazca
Plate
St Helena
Hol Spot
30
Southwest
Ridge
dian
Southeast I Indian Ridge
Tasman
Hot Spot
Sentia
Plate
Bouvet
Hot Spet
Antarctic
Plate
414)
Antarctic
Plate
Sandwich
Plate
LIKI
L20
14)
140
20
yovarnding
piate
suoduct ng
plato
Translorm Plate Boundary Complex or Uncerta'n
Divergent Pate Boundary
(usually broken by transkorm
faults along mid-ocean ndges)
Relatrve Motion
at Plate Boundary Hot Spot
Mantie
(Transkom Fautt)
Plale Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
(Subduction Zone)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
NOTE: No: all plates and boundaries are shown.
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