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The 30 pages that link to North American Plate, each with the reason it gives.

• Eurasian PlateRelated: The two plates diverge along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which separates their oceanic portions.

• Cascadia subduction zoneRelated: Its margin forms the upper plate of the Cascadia boundary.

• North AmericaRelated: Its movements shaped the continent’s geological structure and boundaries.

• San Andreas FaultRelated: The eastern side of the boundary; its motion relative to the Pacific drives the fault's slip.

• LaurentiaRelated: Laurentia is the ancient continental core carried within this modern tectonic plate.

• Japan TrenchRelated: Some plate models place the Okhotsk microplate within this broader plate system.

• Aleutian IslandsRelated: The Aleutian chain lies along its boundary with the Pacific Plate.

• Columbia River Basalt GroupRelated: Its motion over mantle sources helps frame reconstructions of the province's origin.

• Laramide orogenyNarrower topic: The orogeny deformed its western interior as oceanic lithosphere converged along its margin.

• Sierra Madre OccidentalNarrower topic: The range’s geological evolution unfolded on the western margin of this plate.

• 2010 Haiti earthquakeRelated: Its boundary with the Caribbean Plate accommodates the regional motion behind Haiti’s seismic hazard.

• Farallon PlateRelated: Its western margin overrode the Farallon Plate for much of the plate's history.

• Juan de Fuca PlateRelated: It overrides the Juan de Fuca Plate along Cascadia.

• 1964 Alaska earthquakeRelated: The Pacific Plate subducts beneath its southern Alaskan margin.

• Cocos PlateCompared with: The Cocos Plate subducts beneath its margin off southern Mexico.

• Yellowstone hotspotRelated: Its southwestward motion over the hotspot helped produce the northeast-trending volcanic track.

• Okhotsk PlateCompared with: Some plate models group the Okhotsk region with this plate rather than treating it separately.

• Trans-Mexican Volcanic BeltRelated: The belt lies on this plate, above the subducting oceanic plates.

• Aleutian TrenchRelated: It overrides the Pacific Plate at the trench.

• Azores Triple JunctionRelated: Its boundary with the Eurasian Plate runs along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge into the junction.

• Japanese island arcRelated: Older regional descriptions assigned northeastern Japan to this plate, but finer models often use the Okhotsk Plate.

• Puerto Rico TrenchRelated: Its eastward motion drives underthrusting beneath the Caribbean Plate along the trench.

• Alaska PeninsulaRelated: The peninsula lies on this plate, above the subduction zone.

• Coast MountainsRelated: Its western margin interacted with oceanic plates during the range’s formation.

• Great Hanshin earthquakeRelated: The earthquake occurred within the complex plate-boundary region near its eastern margin.

• Chersky RangeRelated: Its interaction with the Eurasian Plate contributes to regional deformation.

• Columbia PlateauRelated: The plateau’s volcanic and structural history unfolded on this plate.

• Pacific Coast RangesRelated: Its western boundary helps explain the ranges’ varied uplift and deformation.

• Cascade VolcanoesRelated: It is the overriding plate beneath which the oceanic plates descend to generate Cascade volcanism.

• Geography of North AmericaRelated: Plate boundaries and movement help account for western mountains, earthquakes, and volcanism.