Geology Cartoon (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Geology Cartoon

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The Washington coast is geologically complex. The bubbles emerge from a region off the coast above where the Juan de Fuca ocean plate plunges beneath the North American continental plate.

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Paul Johnson/University of Washington

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