plates float on the surface of mantle which plate pushes the philippines plate toward the eurasian plate
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The Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea plate to the east while the west/northwestern part of the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the continental Eurasian plate.
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The pacific plate floats on the surface of the mantle that pushes the Philippines plate toward the Eurasian plate.
- Beneath the Philippine Sea plate, the Pacific plate subducts to the east.
- The Philippine Sea plate is peculiar tectonically, and all of the considered boundaries are convergent.
- While the western and the northwestern portion of the Philippine Sea plate subducts below the Eurasian continental plate.
- The Philippine Sea plate, with the Okhotsk plate to the arid north and the Australian plate to the south, secure shorter borders.
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