Branching out like a funnel to the north is the Arabian plate.

On the leading edge of the Arabian plate, the Musandam Peninsula is sinking.

The crack forming is thought to be part of the process in which the Arabian Plate and African plates are moving apart.

Its greater variety in the Arabian Plate suggests R0a originated in and spread from there.

Iran is a seismically active zone, lying between the converging Eurasian and Arabian Plates.

This earthquake occurred as a result of normal faulting within the lithosphere of the subducted Arabian Plate.

It is compressed between the Arabian Plate to the south and the Eurasian Plate to the north.

The Arabian plate is slowly pushing under the Eurasian plate, creating the earthquake-prone mountains of Iran.

Oman, located at the southeast corner of the Arabian plate, is being pushed slowly northward, as the Red Sea grows wider.

Iran lies within the complex zone of collision between the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

Today, the Arabian plate is experiencing a crustal down pull, or slab pull, that has separated from the African plate.

Geological Charts at Arabian Plate Sequence Stratigraphy, 2004.

The Arabian Plate consists mostly of the Arabian peninsula; it extends northward to Turkey.

It was a new sea, formed by rifting between the new Arabian plate and the African, which meant it had uplift ridges on both coasts.

The Red Sea Rift is between the African (or Nubian) and Arabian Plates.

The quake reportedly occurred within the subducting Arabian Plate below the overriding Eurasian Plate.

Musandan experiences occasional tremors as the Arabian Plate collides with the Eurasian Plate.

Three major tectonic plates converge on Western Asia, including the African, Eurasian, and Arabian plates.

The collision between the Arabian Plate and Eurasia is pushing up the Zagros Mountains of Iran.

The fault system runs along the boundary of two tectonic plates, the African Plate on the west and the Arabian Plate on the east.

To the east of the junction of these two faults, the Arabian Plate is in direct collision with the Eurasian Plate.

It forms the transform type tectonic boundary between the Anatolian Plate and the northward-moving Arabian Plate.

These two sets of mountains have both resulted from the continuing effects of the collision between the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

The North Anatolian plate is a small slab of crust trapped between the larger Arabian plate and Eurasian plate.

The easterly side is a boundary with the Arabian Plate, the East Anatolian Fault, a left lateral transform fault.