Arabian Plate

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The Arabian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the Middle East that carries most of the Arabian Peninsula and is involved in active collision and rifting with surrounding plates.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Arabian Plate canonical 25
Arabia Plate 2
Arabian Plate and Eurasian Plate 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf lithospheric plate
tectonic plate
age mostly Mesozoic to Cenozoic crust
associatedWith Dead Sea Transform earthquake zone
Taurus Mountains
Zagros Mountains
seismic activity in Iran and Turkey
borders Aegean Sea Plate
African Plate
Anatolian Plate
Eurasian Plate
Indian Plate
linked to: India Plate

Sinai subplate
Somali Plate
carries Arabian Peninsula
hasBoundaryFeature Bitlis–Zagros suture zone
Dead Sea Transform
Owen Fracture Zone
Red Sea Rift
Zagros fold and thrust belt
linked to: Zagros Mountains
hasBoundaryType convergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
hasOceanicCrustAlong Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
isCollidingWith Anatolian Plate
Eurasian Plate
isRiftingFrom African Plate
Somali Plate
locatedIn Eastern Hemisphere
Middle East
Northern Hemisphere
movementDirection northward
movementSpeed about 15–25 millimeters per year
partOf Earth lithosphere
separatedFrom African Plate by Red Sea
Somali Plate by Gulf of Aden
underlies Bahrain
Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
parts of Iran
parts of Iraq
parts of Jordan
parts of Syria
parts of Turkey

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eurasian Plate hasBoundaryWith Arabian Plate
Eurasian Plate interactsWith Arabian Plate
African Plate boundedBy Arabian Plate
Yemen locatedIn Arabian Plate
Red Sea plateBoundaryBetween Arabian Plate
Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt formsBoundaryBetween Arabian Plate and Eurasian Plate
linked to: Arabian Plate
Afar Triangle plateBoundary Arabian Plate
Somali Plate movesRelativeTo Arabian Plate
Gondwana brokeUpInto Arabian Plate
Great Rift Valley system associatedWith Arabian Plate
Afro-Arabian Rift System separates Arabian Plate
India Plate boundedBy Arabian Plate
India Plate interactsWith Arabian Plate
Samhah locatedOnTectonicPlate Arabian Plate
Dead Sea Transform fault plate2 Arabian Plate
Anatolian Plate boundedBy Arabian Plate
Sinai subplate boundedBy Arabia Plate
linked to: Arabian Plate
Sinai subplate hasMotionRelativeTo Arabia Plate
linked to: Arabian Plate
Bitlis–Zagros suture zone separates Arabian Plate
Owen Fracture Zone separates Arabian Plate
Maysan Governorate partOf Arabian Plate
Carlsberg Ridge separates Arabian Plate
Carlsberg Ridge formsBoundaryOf Arabian Plate
Palmyrene mountain range partOf northern Arabian Plate
linked to: Arabian Plate
Jabal al-Lawz locatedOn Arabian Plate
Arabian Shield partOf Arabian Plate