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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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    between the Eurasian plate and the North American plate Iberian plate – Small tectonic plate now part of the Eurasian plate Iranian plate – Geological feature...
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    Central Iberian Plate, Ossa-Morena Plate, South Portuguese Plate) began to disintegrate from Gondwana (along with other European fragments). These plates never...
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    The Eurasian plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Asia and Europe), with the...
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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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Geology of the Iberian Peninsula
    The geology of the Iberian Peninsula consists of the study of the rock formations on the Iberian Peninsula, connected to the rest of the European landmass...
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    subducted beneath the Adriatic Plate in the Paleocene, the Briançonnais microcontinent, according to some a piece of the Iberian Plate, arrived at the subduction...
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    north-western Poland, south-eastern Ireland, and the south-western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. Part of the British-Belgian section formed an island in 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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    The Aegean Sea plate (also called the Hellenic plate or Aegean plate) is a small tectonic plate located in the Eastern Mediterranean under Southern Greece...
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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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    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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  • until the end of the Late Cretaceous period Iberian plate – Small tectonic plate now part of the Eurasian plate Insular India – Isolated land mass which...
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  • product of the complex interaction between the African, Eurasian, and Iberian plates. The AGFZ produced these large-magnitude earthquakes and, consequently...
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  • Thumbnail for Piemont-Liguria Ocean
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Iberian magpie
    The Iberian magpie (Cyanopica cooki) is a bird in the crow family. It is 31–35 cm (12–14 in) long and similar in overall shape to the Eurasian magpie...
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  • Thumbnail for Geology of Great Britain
    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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  • 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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    Pic de Bugarach is striking. Its top layer is an overthrust from the Iberian plate and is older than the bottom ones. This has given rise to its description...
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    Celtiberians (redirect from Celt-Iberian)
    and Celticized peoples inhabiting an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC. They were explicitly mentioned...
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    tectonic boundaries between the African Plate and the European Plate and its southern fragments such as the Iberian Plate. This boundary zone is characterised...
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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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    Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean that once separated the Iberian plate from the Eurasian Plate through the Betic Cordillera. Its closure approximately...
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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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    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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