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American

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Pluiipine

piąte

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Pacific    Coco

Ocean    P***®

Nazca

piąte

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p ate ooundary plate boundary

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Oceanie

crust

Pacific

Ocean

nental

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manile

Armero

Transform plate boundary

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Upper

manile

crust

£* FIGURĘ 12-1 The Ring of Fire is a zonę of intense eaixhquak.e and vokanic activity that encircies the Pacific Ocean basin Most of this activity resuJts from plate convergcncc as illustrated by the two insets.