Arabian Plate
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The Arabian plate is shown in bright yellow on this map
The Arabian Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Arabian peninsula and extending northward to Turkey. The plate borders are:
- East, with the Indo-Australian Plate
- South, with the African Plate to the west and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east
- West, divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the northern part of the Great Rift Valley and the Red Sea rift zone.
- North, with the Eurasian PlateTemplate:Geol-stub