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    This document lists and categorizes the major tectonic plates on Earth. It divides the plates into primary plates that make up most of the seven continents and oceans, secondary plates that are generally shown on maps, and tertiary plates that are parts of larger plates or remnants of ancient broken plates. The primary plates include the African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific, South American, and Eurasian plates.

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    This document lists and categorizes the major tectonic plates on Earth. It divides the plates into primary plates that make up most of the seven continents and oceans, secondary plates that are generally shown on maps, and tertiary plates that are parts of larger plates or remnants of ancient broken plates. The primary plates include the African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific, South American, and Eurasian plates.

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    This document lists and categorizes the major tectonic plates on Earth. It divides the plates into primary plates that make up most of the seven continents and oceans, secondary plates that are generally shown on maps, and tertiary plates that are parts of larger plates or remnants of ancient broken plates. The primary plates include the African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific, South American, and Eurasian plates.

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    List of tectonic

    plates
    Wikimedia list article

    Global earthquake epicenters, 1963-1998.


    Current plates (2019)

    Plate tectonics map from NASA

    This is a list of the biggest tectonic


    plates on Earth. Including small ones,
    there are about a hundred tectonic plate.
    These are only the large ones.
    Primary plates
    These seven plates make up most of the
    seven continents, and the Pacific and
    Atlantic Oceans.

    African plate
    Antarctic plate
    Indo-Australian plate
    North American plate
    Pacific plate
    South American plate
    Eurasian plate

    Secondary plates
    These plates are generally shown on
    major plate maps, with the exception of
    the Arabian and Indian plates, which are
    smaller than the others.

    Arabian plate
    Caribbean plate
    Cocos plate
    Juan de Fuca plate
    Indian plate
    Nazca plate
    Philippine Sea plate ( also known as
    the Filipino plate)
    Scotia plate

    Tertiary plates
    These are parts of major plates, and bits
    and pieces of ancient plates that became
    broken up.

    Agean plate

    Related pages
    Plate tectonics

    Other websites
    Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital
    model of plate boundaries also
    available as a large (13 mb) PDF file

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