The Kula plate was an oceanic tectonic plate under the northern Pacific Ocean south of the Near Islands segment of the Aleutian Islands. It has been subducted under the North American plate at the Aleutian Trench, being replaced by the Pacific plate.
The name Kula is from a Tlingit language word meaning "all gone".[1] As the name suggests, the Kula plate was entirely subducted around 48 Ma and today only a slab in the mantle under the Bering Sea remains.[2] There is some evidence of a Resurrection plate broken off from the Kula plate and also subducted.[3][4]
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