Eurasian Plate

GPTKB entity

Statements (58)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf geographical region
gptkbp:age varies, up to 3 billion years
gptkbp:area 67,800,000 km²
gptkbp:averageSpeed 7-14 mm/year
gptkbp:borders gptkb:Amurian_Plate
gptkb:Anatolian_Plate
gptkb:Indian_Plate
gptkb:Arabian_Plate
gptkb:North_American_Plate
gptkb:Indo-Australian_Plate
gptkb:Pacific_Plate
gptkb:Philippine_Sea_Plate
gptkb:Okhotsk_Plate
gptkb:African_Plate
gptkbp:collisionZoneWith gptkb:Indian_Plate
gptkbp:contains gptkb:British_Isles
gptkb:Iberian_Peninsula
gptkb:Ural_Mountains
gptkb:Tibetan_Plateau
gptkb:Himalayas
gptkb:Siberia
gptkb:Scandinavia
Indian subcontinent
part of the Mediterranean Sea
gptkbp:covers gptkb:Asia
gptkb:Europe
part of the Indian Ocean
part of the Atlantic Ocean
part of the Arctic Ocean
gptkbp:formedBy breakup of Pangaea
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Eurasian Plate
gptkbp:largestTectonicPlate false
gptkbp:majorFaults gptkb:Alpide_belt
San Andreas Fault (indirectly via boundary)
gptkbp:meetingPlace gptkb:Sunda_Trench
gptkb:Himalayan_orogeny
gptkb:Kuril-Kamchatka_Trench
gptkb:Mid-Atlantic_Ridge
gptkb:East_African_Rift
gptkb:Alpide_belt
gptkbp:movesDirection east
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Asia
gptkb:Europe
gptkbp:partOf Earth's lithosphere
gptkbp:riftZoneWith gptkb:North_American_Plate
gptkbp:secondLargestTectonicPlate true
gptkbp:subductionZoneWith gptkb:Pacific_Plate
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Gakkel_Ridge
gptkb:Ring_of_Fire
gptkb:Japanese_Archipelago
gptkb:Sunda_Trench
gptkb:Alpine_orogeny
gptkb:Azores_Plateau
gptkb:Charlie-Gibbs_Fracture_Zone
gptkb:Mid-Atlantic_Ridge
gptkb:Pacific_Ring_of_Fire
gptkb:Reykjanes_Ridge
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5