I've been writing about plate tectonics here since the beginning, but only today did it occur to me to write about two common terms in plate tectonics: triple junctions and microplates. So without further ado, here are primers on those two topics: triple junctions and microplates.
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There is a nice illustration of the Mendocino triple junction on page 2 of http://www.mbari.org/education/internship/01interns/01papers/kela.pdf.