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The Jan Mayen Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate east of Iceland. The island Jan Mayen is at its northern end, and the plate stretches 500 km southwards.

It is proposed that the microplate has rifted off the North American Plate in late oligocene.

See also

• List of tectonic plates

References

• http://www.geo.uib.no/Forskning/Storre%20prosjekter/JMMC/JMMC.html

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