Aegean Sea Plate
Aegean Sea Plate | |
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Type | Micro |
Movement1 | south-west |
Speed1 | 37 mm/year |
Features | Greece, Turkey, Aegean Sea |
1Relative to the African Plate |
The Aegean Sea Plate (also called the Hellenic Plate or Aegean Plate) is a small
The seafloor in this region is about 350 m below sea level, while the adjacent
Previous observations of the region's motion described the crust under the Aegean Sea as a part of the
Development
The Aegean Sea area is thought to be an actively extending
Prior to the extensional environment, the region underwent the Aegean Orogeny (c. 70 - 14 Ma), followed by
Seismic activity
The Aegean Sea and surrounding area is seismically active because of the Hellenic subduction zone, as well as the extension of the Aegean Plate. The African plate is subducting under the Aegean Plate at a rate of about 40 mm/year, causing shallow earthquakes near the fault and deeper earthquakes near the Greek volcanic arc.[8] Some seismic activity is a result of the extension of the plate, which creates east–west trending faults that can slip and cause earthquakes.[9]
References
- ISBN 978-1-86239-239-7
- OCLC 179835425.
- ^ S2CID 225356710.
- ^ ISSN 2156-2202.
- ^ Simonelli, Glenn. "Tectonics of the Aegean/Anatolian region" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-18.
- ^ "Basins and ranges". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2011-03-12.
- ^ Higgins, MD; Higgins, R (1996). A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean. Duckworth Publishers, London. pp. 16–25.
- ^ Herman, M.W., Hayes, G.P., Smoczyk, G.M., Turner, Rebecca, Turner, Bethan, Jenkins, Jennifer, Davies, Sian, Parker, Amy, Sinclair, Allison, Benz, H.M., Furlong, K.P., and Villaseñor, Antonio, 2015, Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2013, Mediterranean Sea and vicinity: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1083-Q, scale 1:10,000,000, doi:10.3133/ofr20101083Q.
- ^ How did the 2020 Aegean Sea Earthquake happen? #utd gss #geonews, retrieved 2021-12-02
Further reading
- Bird, P. (2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 4 (3): 1027. .
- Müller, R. Dietmar; Zahirovic, Sabin; Williams, Simon E.; Cannon, John; Seton, Maria; Bower, Dan J.; Tetley, Michael G.; Heine, Christian; Breton, Eline Le; Liu, Shaofeng; Russell, Samuel H. J. (2019). "A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic". Tectonics. 38 (6): 1884–1907. S2CID 164552875.
External links
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