Nazca Ridge

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The Nazca Ridge is an ocean ridge in the southern Pacific Ocean. It lies on the Nazca Plate and is being subducted in the Peru-Chile Trench under the South American Plate by ongoing plate motion.^[1]

References

Jyotiranjan S. Ray et al (June 2012). "Chronology and Geochemistry of Lavas from the Nazca Ridge and Easter Seamount Chain: an ∼30 Myr Hotspot Record". Journal of Petrology (Oxford University Press) 53 (6). doi:10.1093/petrology/egs021.

v t e Geology of Chile

Morphology	Torres del Paine Valdivia

Institutions	CODELCO INACH ONEMI OVDAS SERNAGEOMIN (Andean Geology)

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