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The North American plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.With an area of 76 million km 2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth's second largest tectonic plate, behind the Pacific plate (which borders the plate to the west).
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 notable exceptions of the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
Map showing Earth's principal tectonic plates and their boundaries in detail. These plates comprise the bulk of the continents and the Pacific Ocean.For purposes of this list, a major plate is any plate with an area greater than 20 million km 2 (7.7 million sq mi)
The Arabian plate is a minor tectonic plate in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.. It is one of the three continental plates (along with the African and Indian plates) that have been moving northward in geological history and colliding with the Eurasian plate.
Plate tectonics map. The East African Rift (Great Rift Valley) in eastern Africa; The Mid-Atlantic Ridge system separates the North American plate and the South American plate in the west from the African plate and the Eurasian plate in the east; The Gakkel Ridge is a slow spreading ridge located in the Arctic Ocean
2.4 North America. 2.5 Eurasia. 2.5.1 Eastern Eurasia. 2.5.2 Northern and Eastern Europe. ... Arabian Plate. Part of the Arabian–Nubian Shield; Western Ethiopian ...
The African plate is bounded on the northeast by the Arabian plate, the southeast by the Somali plate, the north by the Eurasian plate, the Aegean Sea plate, and the Anatolian plate, and on the south by the Antarctic plate at the Southwest Indian Ridge.
Arabian plate – Minor tectonic plate; Burma plate – Minor tectonic plate in Southeast Asia; Cocos plate – Young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America; Eurasian plate – Tectonic plate which includes most of Eurasia