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The Aegean Sea plate (also called the Hellenic plate or Aegean plate) is a small tectonic plate located in the Eastern Mediterranean under Southern Greece and western Turkey. Its southern edge is the Hellenic subduction zone south of Crete , where the African plate is being swept under the Aegean Sea plate. [ 1 ]
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 Eurasian and African Tectonic Plates [10] Map of Malta Escarpment. The escarpment was formed by the subduction of the African Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. [11] [12] These movements are still ongoing, roughly an annual 4 millimetres in the western Mediterranean to one centimetre in the eastern Mediterranean. [13]
Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) ' pertaining to building ') [1] is the scientific theory that the Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
In the western Mediterranean, the relative motions of the Eurasian and African plates produce a combination of lateral and compressive forces, concentrated in a zone known as the Azores–Gibraltar Fault Zone. Along its northeast margin, the African plate is bounded by the Red Sea Rift where the Arabian plate is moving away from the African plate.
English: Tectonic map of southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt. Only Alpine (tertiary) structures are shown. Date
The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...
Map of tectonic plates in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Maltese Archipelago rests on an underwater plateau, a relatively stable part of the African Plate.The islands are situated around 200 km to the south of the subduction fault between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.