triple junction
point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet
Rodrigues Triple Point
place where the African Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, and the Antarctic Plate meet
Queen Charlotte Triple Junction
point where the Pacific Plate, the North American Plate, and the Explorer Plate meet
Kamchatka-Aleutian Triple Junction
place where the Pacific Plate, the Okhotsk Plate, and the North American Plate meet
Mendocino Triple Junction
point where the Gorda plate, the North American plate, and the Pacific plate meet
Galapagos Triple Junction
place where the boundaries of the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Pacific Plate meet
South Greenland Triple Junction
former geologic triple junction in the North Atlantic Ocean that divided the North American, Greenland and Eurasian plates
Chile Triple Junction
place where the South American, Nazca and Antarctic tectonic plates meet
Banda Sea Triple Junction
point where the boundaries of the Indo-Australian Plate, the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate meet
Boso Triple Junction
meeting point of the Okhotsk Plate, the Pacific Plate, and the Philippine Sea Plate
Azores Triple Junction
place where the boundaries of the North American, the Eurasian and the African tectonic plates intersect
Afar triple junction
place where three tectonic rifts meet in East Africa
Rivera Triple Junction
place where the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, and the Pacific Plate meet
Aden-Owen-Carlsberg Triple Junction
junction of three tectonic plate boundaries in the northwest Indian Ocean