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The Philippine Sea Plat (Convergent plate boundaries.

The Philippine Sea plate is tectonically


unusual in that almost all the boundaries
are convergent. The Pacific plate
is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea
plate to the east while the
west/northwestern part of the Philippine
Sea plate is subducting beneath the
continental Eurasian plate.

There is also a divergent boundary between the Philippine


Sea Plate and the small Mariana Plate which carries the
Mariana Islands.

The most famous example of this is the San Andreas Fault Zone of western
North America. The San Andreas connects a divergent boundary in the Gulf of California with the Cascadia
subduction zone.

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