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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Plate to the east; the Eurasian Plate, Aegean Sea Plate and Anatolian Plate to the north; and the Antarctic Plate to the south. Between 60 million years...
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Basin and range topography (section Aegean Sea Plate)
hypotheses attempt to explain them. The Aegean Sea Plate consists of thinned continental crust. The northern part of the plate is currently a region of crustal...
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Centre. The Aegean Sea is a seismically active region with complex plate tectonics interaction both within and surrounding the Aegean Sea Plate. The region...
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Asian transit zones. Sunda Plate Anatolian Plate Aegean Sea Plate Geology portal "Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates". Geology.about.com. 2014-03-05...
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Orogenic collapse (section Aegean Sea Plate)
boundary between the North American and Pacific plates, as well as possible mantle upwelling. The Aegean Sea Plate is a section of continental crust which has...
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The South Aegean Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc (chain of volcanoes) in the South Aegean Sea formed by plate tectonics. The prior cause was the subduction...
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Hellenic arc (redirect from Aegean arc)
Hellenic arc or Aegean arc is an arcuate mountain chain of the southern Aegean Sea located on the southern margin of the Aegean Sea Plate. Geologically...
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Hellenic Trench (category Ionian Sea)
southern margin of the Aegean Sea Plate, or Aegean Plate, also called Aegea, the basement of the Aegean Sea. The HT begins in the Ionian Sea near the mouth of...
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subducting beneath the Anatolian Plate along the Cyprus and Hellenic Arcs offshore in the Mediterranean Sea. Aegean Sea Plate "Eastern Turkey IRIS Report"...
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active region with complex plate tectonics interaction both within and surrounding the Aegean Sea Plate. Seismicity in the Aegean Sea is due to active extension...
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the Apulian Plate – A small tectonic plate in the Mediterranean Aegean Sea Plate, also known as Hellenic Plate – A small tectonic plate in the eastern...
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Aegean Sea, and Anatolian plates. Southern Greece itself is located on the Aegean Sea Plate. The Anatolian Plate is moving southwest into the Aegean Sea...
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the African Plate and the Aegean Sea Plate, where oceanic crust of the African is being subducted north–northeastwards beneath the Aegean. The southernmost...
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Hellenic Subduction carries the leading edge of the African Plate under the Aegean Sea Plate at the Hellenic Trench. It follows an arc around the outer...
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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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eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean Sea Plate, Anatolian Plate and Arabian Plate also form a boundary with the African Plate, which incorporates the Sinai...
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Africa (section African plate)
Plate to the east; the Eurasian Plate, Aegean Sea Plate and Anatolian Plate to the north; and the Antarctic Plate to the south. Between 60 million years...
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(specifically, the Aegean Plate and the Anatolian Plate); the transform boundary between the African Plate and Arabian Plate which forms the Dead Sea Transform;...
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Aral-Caspian Depression around the Aral and Caspian Seas. The level of the Caspian sea is 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, however several areas in the depression...
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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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Geology of Turkey (section Plate tectonics)
discharge into the Aegean Sea or the Sea of Marmara, and to a few narrow coastal strips along the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea coasts.[citation needed]...
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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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Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The northern part of Greece lies on the Eurasian Plate while the southern part lies on the Aegean Sea Plate. The Aegean...
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group lies within a zone of extensional tectonics in the Aegean Sea Plate, between the South Aegean Volcanic Arc to the south and the continuation of the...
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Subsequently, the formation of the Mediterranean Sea covered terranes originating within the African Plate south of the mountains. The Alps form a northward...
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Aegean Sea is an area of mainly extensional tectonics caused by the subduction of the African Plate beneath Aegean Sea Plate. In the northwest Aegean...
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tectonic feature related to the subduction of the African Plate beneath the Aegean Sea Plate. It is one of the most active seismic zones in western Eurasia...
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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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Santorini caldera (category Aegean Sea)
caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece. Visible above water is the circular...
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