Tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia
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Eurasian Plate
Eurasian Plate
Type
Major
Approximate area
67,800,000 km2 (26,200,000 sq mi)[1]
Movement1
south
Speed1
7–14 mm (0.28–0.55 in)/year
Features
Europe (including part of Iceland), Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean
1Relative to the African Plate
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 Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia. It also includes oceanic crust extending westward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and northward to the Gakkel Ridge.
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The EurasianPlate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and...
with the African and Indian plates) that have been moving northward in geological history and colliding with the EurasianPlate. This collision is resulting...
Plate and South American Plate to the west (separated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge); the Arabian Plate and Somali Plate to the east; the EurasianPlate,...
years ago, to the south of the EurasianPlate, corresponding to the regions of modern South Asia. The Kshiroda Plate was discovered when geologists studying...
EurasianPlate and the North American Plate Iberian Plate – Small tectonic plate now part of the Eurasianplate Iranian Plate – Small tectonic plate including...
earth before a plow. The Indian Plate is currently moving north-east at five cm (2.0 in) per year, while the EurasianPlate is moving north at only two cm...
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, EurasianPlate; and Yangtze...
Junction plate boundary where it meets the EurasianPlate and Nubian Plate. and westward to the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia. The plate includes both...
and west by the EurasianPlate. The Longmenshan Fault on the latter border was the site of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The Yangtze Plate was formed by...
Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The oceanic Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath the EurasianPlate at the...
Gondwana during the Cretaceous and merged with the Iranian Plateau and EurasianPlate nearly 55 million years ago, forming the Himalayas. Historically, as...
Adriatic/Apulian Plate collided with the EurasianPlate. The Adriatic/Apulian Plate is thought to still move independently of the EurasianPlate in NNE direction...
The Iberian Plate is a microplate typically grouped with the EurasianPlate that includes the microcontinent Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands...
Amurian Plate and the EurasianPlate. GPS measurements indicate that the plate is slowly rotating counterclockwise. The boundary between the Okhotsk Plate is...
about 280 million years ago. The Baltic Plate, however, fused onto the EurasianPlate when the Baltic Plate collided against Siberia when the Ural Mountains...
and West Asia. It makes up part of the EurasianPlate, and is wedged between the Arabian Plate and the Indian Plate. The plateau is situated between the...
Afro-Eurasia or simply a continent in its own right. In plate tectonics, the EurasianPlate includes Europe and most of Asia but not the Indian subcontinent...
It is compressed between the Arabian Plate to the southwest, the EurasianPlate to the north, and the Indian Plate to the southeast. This compression is...
The Burma Plate is a minor tectonic plate or microplate located in Southeast Asia, sometimes considered a part of the larger EurasianPlate. The Andaman...
continental crust of the EurasianPlate. To the north of Taiwan, the Philippine Sea Plate is in contrast subducting beneath the EurasianPlate, forming the Ryukyu...
Australian Plate is bordered (clockwise) by the EurasianPlate, the Philippine Plate, the Pacific Plate, the Antarctic Plate, the African Plate and the Indian...
Philippine Sea Plate and the EurasianPlate. In a boundary running the length of the island and continuing southwards, the EurasianPlate is sliding under...
to climbers. Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the EurasianPlate, the Himalayan mountain range runs west-northwest to east-southeast...
Pacific Plate, the Okhotsk Plate, and the North American Plate meet Karlıova Triple Junction – Place where the Anatolian Plate, the EurasianPlate and the...
be located on the EurasianPlate at a quadruple junction with the North American Plate, the Pacific Plate and the Philippines Plate. At that time the...
continental plates began to collide with the Eurasianplate. This process is still at work today as the African Plate converges with the EurasianPlate and the...
where the African Plate is being swept under the Aegean Sea Plate. Its northern margin is a divergent boundary with the EurasianPlate. The seafloor in...
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