The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters.
What plates do Iran and Turkey lie?
GEOLOGIC SETTING. In plate-tectonic terms, the area lies within the Arabian Plate. It covers the Republic of Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, the fertile crescent of Syria and Iraq, southeastern Turkey, and southwestern Iran during the Paleozoic and earliest Mesozoic.
How Important is the Red Sea?
The World’s Next Ocean
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