South American Plate

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South American Plate One of the major present-day lithospheric plates, extending from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the east to the subducting Nazca Plate in the west, with most of the boundaries with other plates (i.e. Antarctic, Scotia, Caribbean, and North American) being transform faults.

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South American Plate