Is a Russian peninsula really part of North America?

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In this view of tectonic plate convergence between North America and Asia the Kamchatka Peninsula likes on the Okhotsk block in the box at the center of the map. Credit: National Geophysical Data CenterJody Bourgeois
In this view of tectonic plate convergence between North America and Asia, the Kamchatka Peninsula likes on the Okhotsk block in the box at the center of the map. Credit: National Geophysical Data Center/Jody Bourgeois

For many years geologists have harbored a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, Canada and Mexico.


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