Historical tectonic plates

ancient continent

tectonic plate

continental crustal block in northeast China, Inner Mongolia, the Yellow Sea, and North Korea

geologic province in South America

ancient craton in the eastern part of South America with outcrops in Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil

continental block in southeastern South America

ancient tectonic plate, which was subducted beneath the Okhotsk Plate

continent

ancient tectonic plate that fused onto the Antarctic Plate

ancient tectonic plate that existed during the mid-Cretaceous through early Cenozoic time; the remainder of the plate is now located east of the Drake Passage/Shackleton Fracture Zone

ancient tectonic plate

Archean craton which forms the core of the Canadian Shield north of Lake Superior

ancient oceanic tectonic plate that lay on the west coast of North America about 195 million years ago; surrounded by the Intermontane Islands

fragment of crustal material, sutured to the Eurasian Plate during the Cretaceous that forms present-day southern Tibet

ancient oceanic plate that began subducting under the west-coast of North America around the early Cretaceous time