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The Scotia Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate
Tectonic Plate

#REDIRECT Plate tectonics...
 bordering the South American Plate
South American Plate

The South American Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of South America and extending eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge....
 on the north, the South Sandwich Plate
South Sandwich Plate

The South Sandwich Plate or list of tectonic plates#Minor plates is a tectonic plate bounded by the subducting South American Plate to the east, the Antarctic Plate to the south and the Scotia plate to the west....
 to the east, and the Antarctic Plate
Antarctic Plate

The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Antarctica and extending outward under the surrounding oceans. The Antarctic Plate has a boundary with the Nazca Plate, the South American Plate, the African Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Scotia Plate and a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Pacific...
 on the south and west.

The north and south boundaries of the plate are transform fault
Transform fault

A transform fault or transform boundary is a Fault which runs along the boundary of a tectonic plate. The relative motion of such plates is Horizontal plane in either sinistral or dextral direction....
 boundaries. At the eastern margin the Scotia has a spreading boundary between it and the small South Sandwich Plate.






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The Scotia Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate
Tectonic Plate

#REDIRECT Plate tectonics...
 bordering the South American Plate
South American Plate

The South American Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of South America and extending eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge....
 on the north, the South Sandwich Plate
South Sandwich Plate

The South Sandwich Plate or list of tectonic plates#Minor plates is a tectonic plate bounded by the subducting South American Plate to the east, the Antarctic Plate to the south and the Scotia plate to the west....
 to the east, and the Antarctic Plate
Antarctic Plate

The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Antarctica and extending outward under the surrounding oceans. The Antarctic Plate has a boundary with the Nazca Plate, the South American Plate, the African Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Scotia Plate and a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Pacific...
 on the south and west.

The north and south boundaries of the plate are transform fault
Transform fault

A transform fault or transform boundary is a Fault which runs along the boundary of a tectonic plate. The relative motion of such plates is Horizontal plane in either sinistral or dextral direction....
 boundaries. At the eastern margin the Scotia has a spreading boundary between it and the small South Sandwich Plate. The South American Plate
South American Plate

The South American Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of South America and extending eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge....
 is subducting under east side of the South Sandwich Plate, which is thought to have brought about its separation from the Scotia Plate, starting as backarc spreading. The western boundary with the Antarctic plate is a complex and rather ill-defined boundary.

There is some speculation that the westward motion of the South American Plate may have forced the Caribbean
Caribbean Plate

The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic crust tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America....
 and Scotia Plates at its northern and southern ends respectively to squeeze around it. Both share a similar shape and are bounded along their eastern side by a subducting part of the South American Plate.

See also

  • Magallanes-Fagnano Fault
    Magallanes-Fagnano Fault

    The Magallanes-Fagnano fault is a continental transform fault.The fault marks a transform boundary between the Scotia Plate and the South American Plate, cutting across continental crust....