Why is it the Global Warming Zealots wont admit that they were wrong? Sociopaths never admit they are wrong.

[Sunsettommy]

I see what is happening but the spreading region does not power the movement, it is the underlying mantle and, to a lesser extent, the downward pull of the subducting oceanic crust.

No you are being confused here.

It is moving eastward subducting UNDER the westward moving North American Plate and happening offshore at the Cascadia trench.

From the USGS showing this,

Oceanic-continental convergence​

If by magic we could pull a plug and drain the Pacific Ocean, we would see a most amazing sight -- a number of long narrow, curving trenches thousands of kilometers long and 8 to 10 km deep cutting into the ocean floor. Trenches are the deepest parts of the ocean floor and are created by subduction.

LINK

 

[alang1216]

No you are being confused here.

It is moving eastward subducting UNDER the westward moving North American Plate and happening offshore at the Cascadia trench.

I'm not confused and I don't reject what you wrote, my only point was the WHY the plate is moving at ll.

 

[Sunsettommy]

I'm not confused and I don't reject what you wrote, my only point was the WHY the plate is moving at ll.

They move because of expanding ridges, the one in the Atlantic is the best example which is why the North American plate moves westward while the Juan De Fucha ridge is pushing the Pacific place westward.

Wikipedia LINK

The Juan de Fuca Ridge is a mid-ocean spreading center and divergent plate boundary located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America, named after Juan de Fuca. The ridge separates the Pacific Plate to the west and the Juan de Fuca Plate to the east. It runs generally northward, with a length of approximately 500 kilometres (310 mi). The ridge is a section of what remains from the larger Pacific-Farallon Ridge which used to be the primary spreading center of this region, driving the Farallon Plate underneath the North American Plate through the process of plate tectonics. Today, the Juan de Fuca Ridge pushes the Juan de Fuca Plate underneath the North American plate, forming the Cascadia Subduction Zone.