Kamchatka-Aleutian Triple Junction

The Kamchatka-Aleutian triple junction is a triple junction of tectonic plates of the Fault-Fault-Trench type where the Pacific Plate, the Okhotsk Plate, and the North American Plate meet.[1] It is located east of the Kamchatka Mys peninsula and west of Bering Island. Meiji Seamount is located to the southeast of the junction.

The Kamchatka-Aleutian junction is located at the northern end of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench.

In the Kamchatka-Aleutian junction, the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench meets the Aleutian Trench. The former is a subduction zone while the latter is a transform fault in its western part.

References
  1. Christoph Gaedicke, Boris Baranov, Nokolay Seliverstov, Dmitry Alexeiev, Nikolay Tsukanov, Ralf Freitag (2000). "Structure of an active arc-continent collision area: the Aleutian–Kamchatka junction". Tectonophysics. 325 (1–2): 63–85. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00131-1.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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