The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and...
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Plate and South American Plate to the west (separated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge); the Arabian Plate and Somali Plate to the east; the Eurasian Plate,...
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Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate Iberian Plate – Small tectonic plate now part of the Eurasian plate Iranian Plate – Small tectonic plate including...
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with the African and Indian plates) that have been moving northward in geological history and colliding with the Eurasian Plate. This collision is resulting...
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earth before a plow. The Indian Plate is currently moving north-east at five cm (2.0 in) per year, while the Eurasian Plate is moving north at only two cm...
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The Anatolian Sub-Plate is a continental tectonic plate that is separated from the Eurasian Plate and the Arabian Plate by the North Anatolian Fault and...
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Junction plate boundary where it meets the Eurasian Plate and Nubian Plate. and westward to the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia. The plate includes both...
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Afro-Eurasia (redirect from Afro-Eurasian)
Strait of Gibraltar. Today, the Eurasian Plate and African Plate dominate their respective continents. However, the Somali Plate covers much of eastern Africa...
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Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The oceanic Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate at the...
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Adriatic/Apulian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate. The Adriatic/Apulian Plate is thought to still move independently of the Eurasian Plate in NNE direction...
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Molucca Sea Plate, Banda Sea Plate and Timor Plate; to the south and west by the Australian Plate; and to the north by the Burma Plate, Eurasian Plate; and Yangtze...
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towards the Eurasian Plate. Ranken and Cardwell (1984) showed that the rate of convergence increases southwards along the trench. The plate rotates with...
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Amurian microplate (redirect from Amur Plate)
Amurian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. GPS measurements indicate that the plate is slowly rotating counterclockwise. The boundary between the Okhotsk Plate is...
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to climbers. Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan mountain range runs west-northwest to east-southeast...
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and West Asia. It makes up part of the Eurasian Plate, and is wedged between the Arabian Plate and the Indian Plate. The plateau is situated between the...
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and west by the Eurasian Plate. The Longmenshan Fault on the latter border was the site of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The Yangtze Plate was formed by...
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north and the African Plate to the south. The northern margin of the Indian Plate forms a convergent boundary with the Eurasian Plate, which constitutes...
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Convergent boundary (redirect from Destructive plate margin)
between the Eurasian Plate and the Indian Plate that is forming the Himalayas. The collision between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate that formed...
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region is dominated by the Eurasian Plate, except for its eastern part, which lies on the North American, Amurian, and Okhotsk Plates. It is divided by three...
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Geology of Turkey (section Plate tectonics)
continental plates began to collide with the Eurasian Plate. This process is still at work today as the African Plate converges with the Eurasian Plate and the...
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Australian Plate is bordered (clockwise) by the Eurasian Plate, the Philippine Plate, the Pacific Plate, the Antarctic Plate, the African Plate and the Indian...
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colliding with the Eurasian Plate nearly 55 million years ago, during the Eocene, forming the Indian subcontinent. The zone where the Eurasian and Indian subcontinent...
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The Iberian Plate is a microplate typically grouped with the Eurasian Plate that includes the microcontinent Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands...
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years ago, to the south of the Eurasian Plate, corresponding to the regions of modern South Asia. The Kshiroda Plate was discovered when geologists studying...
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Atlantic, the ridge separates the North American from the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate, north and south of the Azores Triple Junction. In the South...
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attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled Japan eastward in the process...
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The Burma Plate is a minor tectonic plate or microplate located in Southeast Asia, sometimes considered a part of the larger Eurasian Plate. The Andaman...
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near Sumatra, formed where the Australian-Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate. It is 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) long with a maximum...
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Jan Mayen Microcontinent (redirect from Jan Mayen plate)
part of the western Eurasian Plate lying northeast of Iceland. At the onset of separation between the Greenland and Eurasian plates 55 million years ago...
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