Arabian Plate

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lithospheric plate tectonic plate

The Arabian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the Middle East that carries most of the Arabian Peninsula and is involved in active collision and rifting with surrounding plates.

Aliases (1)
Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf lithospheric plate →
tectonic plate →
age mostly Mesozoic to Cenozoic crust →
associatedWith Dead Sea Transform earthquake zone →
Taurus Mountains →
Zagros Mountains →
seismic activity in Iran and Turkey →
borders Aegean Sea Plate →
African Plate →
Anatolian Plate →
Eurasian Plate →
Indian Plate →
Sinai subplate →
Somali Plate →
carries Arabian Peninsula →
hasBoundaryFeature Bitlis–Zagros suture zone →
Dead Sea Transform →
Owen Fracture Zone →
Red Sea Rift →
Zagros fold and thrust belt →
hasBoundaryType convergent boundary →
divergent boundary →
transform boundary →
hasOceanicCrustAlong Gulf of Aden →
Red Sea →
isCollidingWith Anatolian Plate →
Eurasian Plate →
isRiftingFrom African Plate →
Somali Plate →
locatedIn Eastern Hemisphere →
Middle East →
Northern Hemisphere →
movementDirection northward →
movementSpeed about 15–25 millimeters per year →
partOf Earth lithosphere →
separatedFrom African Plate by Red Sea →
Somali Plate by Gulf of Aden →
underlies Bahrain →
Kuwait →
Oman →
Qatar →
Saudi Arabia →
United Arab Emirates →
Yemen →
parts of Iran →
parts of Iraq →
parts of Jordan →
parts of Syria →
parts of Turkey →
Referenced by (8)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
African Plate →
boundedBy
Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt ("Arabian Plate and Eurasian Plate") →
formsBoundaryBetween
Eurasian Plate →
hasBoundaryWith
Eurasian Plate →
interactsWith
Yemen →
locatedIn
Somali Plate →
movesRelativeTo
Afar Triangle →
plateBoundary
Red Sea →
plateBoundaryBetween
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