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    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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    Eurasia (redirect from Eurasian)
    Afro-Eurasia or simply a continent in its own right. In plate tectonics, the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia but not the Indian subcontinent...
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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 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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    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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    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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    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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