• The Moesian Plate, also known as the Moesian Platform, is a microcontinent and crustal block in the southwestern part of the East European Craton. It extends...
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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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    Cimmerian Plate colliding (from the south) with Eurasia in the north. Convergent movements between the tectonic plates (the African Plate, the Arabian Plate and...
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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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    Adriatic or Apulian Plate is a small tectonic plate carrying primarily continental crust that broke away from the African Plate along a large transform...
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    Tectonic plates and microcontinents Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso...
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    European Plate, the Austroalpine Zone material from the Adriatic Plate, the Penninic Zone material from the domains that existed in between the two plates. Folds...
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    The Aegean Sea Plate (also called the Hellenic Plate or Aegean Plate) is a small tectonic plate located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea under southern...
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    Iceland lies on the divergent boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate. It also lies above a hotspot, the Iceland plume. The plume...
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  • The Baltic Plate was an ancient tectonic plate that existed from the Cambrian Period to the Carboniferous Period. The Baltic Plate collided against Siberia...
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    Fig. 26 Golonka 2002, Fig. 31 Golonka 2002, Fig. 38 Golonka, J. (2002). "Plate-tectonic maps of the Phanerozoic". SEPM Special Publications. 72 (72): 21–75...
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    Europe (and a smaller plate called the Iberian plate) in the northwest and the Apulian plate (a sub-plate of the African tectonic plate) in the southeast...
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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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    Britain's geology is due ultimately to its being subject to a variety of plate tectonic processes over a very extended period of time. Changing latitude...
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    an arcuate archipelago on the southern margin of the Aegean Sea Plate, or Aegean Plate, also called Aegea, the basement of the Aegean Sea. The HT begins...
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  • southwestern end) records the collision of the Eurasian and the African plates during westward-dipping subduction of the African slab since late Oligocene...
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    to the south of the subduction boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The platform is crossed by a rift zone formed of three grabens:...
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    tilted and folded during an orogeny involving a collision of continental plates. Subsequent erosion has left a ridge of resistant quartzite, which has stood...
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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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  • Schall (1974), Duridanov (1976), Radulescu (1987) and Mayer (1996). Daco-Moesian was the ancestor of Albanian, belonging to a branch other than Thracian...
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    Baltic plate passive margin, mainly sediments associated with the break-up of Rodinia Middle allochthon also derived from the margin of the Baltic plate, Proterozoic...
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    Tectonic plates and microcontinents Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso...
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    Barents Sea. From the standpoint of plate tectonics, the ongoing northward drive of the African Plate into the Eurasian Plate in the Mediterranean basin is...
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  • The East European Craton (EEC) is the core of the Baltica proto-plate and consists of three crustal regions/segments: Fennoscandia to the northwest, Volgo-Uralia...
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    the Alpine Orogeny. The Pyrenees were formed as the Iberian Plate impacted the European plate, it was partly subducted. Initial compression started in Santonian...
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    such as channels, trenches, and ridges today and the geological history, plate tectonics, and geological events that created them. The basement of the...
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  • Tectonic plates and microcontinents Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso...
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  • Tectonic plates and microcontinents Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso...
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    Armorican terrane (category Historical tectonic plates)
    segment of the Variscides: tectonostratigraphic units, terrane boundaries and plate tectonic evolution". In Franke W.; Haak V.; Oncken O.; Tanner D. (eds.)...
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    the microcontinent Iberia and the southwestern promontory of the European Plate (i.e. Southern France). The two continents were approaching each other since...
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