Gorda plate

It is sometimes referred to (by, for example, publications from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program)[1] as simply the southernmost portion of the neighboring Juan de Fuca plate, another Farallon remnant.

Numerous faults have been mapped in both the sediments and basement of the Gorda Basin, which is in the interior of the plate south of 41.6°N.

The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific plate forming the Gorda Ridge.

[4] The northerly side is a transform boundary with the Juan de Fuca plate, the Blanco fracture zone.

The subducting Gorda plate is connected with the volcanoes in northern California, namely, Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak.