Okhotsk Plate
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The Okhotsk Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and Eastern Japan. It was considered a part of the North American Plate, but recent studies show that it is an independent plate. It is bounded on the north by the North American Plate, on the east by the Pacific Plate at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and the Japan Trench, on the south by the Philippine Plate at the Nankai Trough, on the west by the Eurasian Plate, and possibly on the southwest by the Amurian Plate.
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Tetsuzo Seno, Taro Sakurai, and Seth Stein. 1996. Can the Okhotsk plate be discriminated from the North American plate? J. Geophys. Res., 101, 11305-11315 (abstract)
