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Pacif'ic Plate'

Geol.one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

Pacific Ocean

Pacific salmon

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