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- Mendocino_Triple_Junction abstract "The Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ) is the point where the Gorda plate, the North American plate, and the Pacific plate meet, in northern California (see triple junction). The Mendocino Triple Junction is the location of a change in the broad plate motions which dominate the west coast of North America, linking convergence of the northern Cascadia subduction zone and translation of the southern San Andreas Fault system. The Gorda plate is subducting, towards N50ºE, under the North American plate at 2.5 – 3 cm/yr, and is simultaneously converging obliquely against the Pacific plate at a rate of 5 cm/yr in the direction N115ºE. The accommodation of this plate configuration results in a transform boundary along the Mendocino Fault, and a divergent boundary at the Gorda Ridge.Due to the relative plate motions, the triple junction has been migrating northwards for the past 25–30 million years, and assuming rigid plates, the geometry requires that a void, called slab window, develop southeast of the MTJ. At this point, removal of the subducting Gorda lithosphere from beneath North America causes asthenospheric upwelling. This instigates different tectonic processes, which include surficial uplift, crustal deformation, intense seismic activity, high heat flow, and even the extrusion of volcanic rocks. This activity is centred on the current triple junction position, but evidence for its migration is found in the geology all along the California coast, starting as far south as Los Angeles.".
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- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wikiPageWikiLink Category:Plate_tectonics.
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- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wikiPageWikiLink San_Andreas_Fault.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wikiPageWikiLink San_Luis_Obispo,_California.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wikiPageWikiLink Slab_window.
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- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wikiPageWikiLink File:Cascade_Volcanic_Arc.jpg.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mendocino Triple Junction".
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- Mendocino_Triple_Junction subject Category:Plate_tectonics.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction subject Category:Seismic_faults_of_California.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction subject Category:Triple_junctions.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction hypernym Point.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction point "40.36666666666667 -124.6".
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction type Place.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction type Fault.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction type SpatialThing.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction comment "The Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ) is the point where the Gorda plate, the North American plate, and the Pacific plate meet, in northern California (see triple junction). The Mendocino Triple Junction is the location of a change in the broad plate motions which dominate the west coast of North America, linking convergence of the northern Cascadia subduction zone and translation of the southern San Andreas Fault system.".
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction label "Mendocino Triple Junction".
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction sameAs Q3183531.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction sameAs Jonction_triple_de_Mendocino.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction sameAs Węzeł_potrójny_Mendocino.
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- Mendocino_Triple_Junction sameAs Q3183531.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction lat "40.36666666666667".
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction long "-124.6".
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction wasDerivedFrom Mendocino_Triple_Junction?oldid=706045371.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction depiction Cascade_Volcanic_Arc.jpg.
- Mendocino_Triple_Junction isPrimaryTopicOf Mendocino_Triple_Junction.