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 .

The African plate, also known as the Nubian plate, is a major tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Africa (except for its easternmost part) and the adjacent oceanic crust to the west and south.

The Arabian plate separated from Africa approximately 25 million years ago, resulting in the closure of the subducting Tethys sea in the northeast (Johnson and Stern, 2010). The rifting of Africa and Arabia opened the Red Sea as well as the Gulf of Aden, bordering the plate on the southwest and southern sides respectively (see figure 1).

The African-Arabian region is composed of the following tectonic plates: Arabia, Madagascar, Nubia, Seychelles, and Somali (Figure 1). Figure 1: Overview of the African and Arabian tectonic plate region.

2024年6月16日 · Yes, the African and Arabian plates are moving apart. This movement has resulted in the formation of a rift system in the Afar region of Northern Ethiopia. The continental lithosphere is being stretched and split as the Arabian Plate rifts away from the African Plate, creating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. What is happening to the African Plate?

2015年11月1日 · The geodynamics of the eastern Mediterranean is dominated by the relative motions of the African, Arabian and Eurasian plates which have provided the compressional tectonic regime in eastern Turkey, with extensional deformation in the western Turkey along the transform zones (i.e., North and East Anatolian Faults).

2021年11月2日 · The African Plate is one of the major tectonic plates on Earth, and is a dynamic place of earthquakes, rifts, and even counterclockwise splitting. The African Plate dives beneath the Eurasian plate, creating faults and earthquakes along …

Along the Alpine–Himalayan chain to the east, the Arabian plate (rifted from the African margin) is colliding with Eurasia, causing widespread deformation, extrusion of continental crust along strike–slip faults, and the formation of the Anatolian and Central Iranian plateaus (Figure 7).

The Red Sea Rift is a mid-ocean ridge between two tectonic plates, the African plate and the Arabian plate. It extends from the Dead Sea Transform fault system, and ends at an intersection with the Aden Ridge and the East African Rift, forming the Afar triple junction in the Afar Depression of the Horn of Africa.

The new ocean created by this rift will be a continuation of the Red Sea; the divergent boundary between the African and Arabian plates. Within 10 Ma, the rift will be completely flooded by the encroaching sea and Somali will become an independent plate (Emerick and Duncan, 1982).