The Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates offshore of the Pacific Northwest. The plate moves eastward from the midocean ridge and spreading center on the plate's western edge to the trench on the eastern ...

At the mid-ocean Juan de Fuca ridge about 500 kilometers (300 miles) offshore of Seattle -- the western edge of the Juan de Fuca plate -- the flow of the mantle below the plate is perpendicular to ...

The map, by the University of California, Berkeley. shows how the movement of the famous Juan de Fuca plate is connected to the flow of the mantle 100 miles (150 km) underground.

De Fuca, for his part, shrewdly died in 1602, years before anyone could confirm or disprove his story. Either way, it doesn’t matter now; the maps with his name have been printed. That ship has ...

The volcano, named Axial Seamount, sits on the Juan de Fuca Ridge about 300 miles off the coast of Astoria, Oregon. In the last 30 years, Axial has erupted three times — in 1998, 2011, and 2015 .

Study reveals origins of Juan de Fuca, small but dangerous tectonic plate "We've never had the ability to measure attenuation this way at a mid-ocean ridge before," said geophysicist Zachary Eilon.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACTEndeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge is one of three Integrated Study Sites for the Ridge 2000 Program. It is a remarkable, ...