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East Pacific Rise
The East Pacific Rise is a long north-south welt of seafloor spreading under the eastern Pacific Ocean from near Antarctica in the south northward to its termination at the northern end of the Gulf of California in the Salton Sea basin in southern California. The rise is a constructive tectonic plate margin or divergent boundary lying along the eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean basin.
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