Kula Plate
Kula Plate A formerly large lithospheric plate in the north-western Pacific that met the Pacific and Farallon plates at a triple junction. It was subducted during the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic, only fragments now remaining as terranes in the North American cordillera.
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