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Image:Blank map of Europe (polar stereographic projection) cropped.svg: national borders shown, excluding borders of disputed regions; Europe shaded differently from other areas, showing intranational boundaries
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 boundary between Asia and Europe is unusual among continental boundaries because of its largely mountain-and-river-based characteristics north and east of the Black Sea. Asia and Europe are considered separate continents for historical reasons; the division between the two goes back to the early Greek geographers.
Orogenic belts occur where two continental plates collide and push upwards to form large mountain ranges. These are also known as collision boundaries. Subduction zones occur where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate and is pushed underneath it. Subduction zones are marked by oceanic trenches. The descending end of the oceanic plate ...
A blank map of Europe using Wikipedia standard colors in SVG format, based on Image:BlankMap-Europe-v5.png. Note that the borders represent a second object "grouped" with the outline of Europe. Note that the borders represent a second object "grouped" with the outline of Europe.
The location where two plates meet is called a plate boundary. Plate boundaries are where geological events occur, such as earthquakes and the creation of topographic features such as mountains, volcanoes, mid-ocean ridges, and oceanic trenches. The vast majority of the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacific ...
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Description: Blank map of Europe * Source: Modification of SVG trace of PNG of the same name. Original PNG based on CIA map The World Factbook * Author: PNG author: San Jose, 19. July 2006. SVG trace by RedHotHeat 06 August 2006. Modification author: cthuljew, 21. January 2009. Date: 22 January 2009, 00:02 (UTC) Source: Derived from Blank_map ...