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COCOS PLATE

The Cocos is a small, triangular shaped plate west of the Carribean Islands and Mexico. This plate is mostly underneath the Pacific water sharing a divergent boundary with the pacific plate and a convergent boundary with the Carribean and North American plate to form a lot of volcanoes.   

Cocos and Caribbean plate converged to form volcanoes close to the Pacific Ocean

Map and Diagram of the Cocos plate
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