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The East Anatolian Fault (EAF; Turkish: Doğu Anadolu Fay Hattı) is a ~700 km long major strike-slip fault zone running from eastern to south-central Turkey. It forms the transform type tectonic boundary between the Anatolian sub-plate and the northward-moving Arabian plate . [ 1 ]
Anatolian plate. The Anatolian sub-plate [1] [2] is a continental tectonic plate that is separated from the Eurasian plate and the Arabian plate by the North Anatolian Fault and the East Anatolian Fault respectively. Most of the country of Turkey is located on the Anatolian plate. [3]
The Karlıova triple junction is found where the east–west trending North Anatolian Fault intersects the East Anatolian Fault coming up from the southwest, and is ~700 km distant from the Maras triple junction. Because each arm of the junction is a transform fault (F), the Karlıova triple junction is an F-F-F type junction. [clarification ...
The Anatolian sub-plate is currently being squeezed by the collision of the Eurasian plate with the Arabian plate in the East Anatolian Fault Zone. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The boundary between the North American plate and the Eurasian plate in the area around Japan has been described as "shifty". [ 7 ]
A combined diagram of the Aegean and Anatolian plates. The southern margin of the Hellenic arc is shown, which is the trend line of the faults separating the arc and the Hellenic Trench. The body of the arc is the chain called the outer Hellenides, which includes west Peloponnesus, Crete, Rhodes, southwestern Turkey, and all the islands between.
South, with the African plate to the west and the Somali plate and the Indo-Australian plate to the east; West, a left lateral fault boundary with the African plate called the Dead Sea Transform (DST), and a divergent boundary with the African plate called the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea;
The East Anatolian Fault, a 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) northeast–southwest left-lateral transform fault, represents the boundary between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. The fault displays slip rates that decrease from the east at 10 mm (0.39 in) per year to the west, where it is 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) per year.
The North Anatolian Fault (NAF) and East Anatolian Fault (EAF) are currently strike-slipping. Adapted from Armijo, 1999 The Gulf of Corinth basin , or Corinth rift , is an active extensional marine sedimentary basin thought to have started deforming during the late Miocene – Pleistocene epoch.