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The Adriatic or Apulian Plate is a small tectonic plate that broke away from the African plate along a large transform fault in the Cretaceous period. The name Adriatic plate is used only when the northern part of the plate is concerned. This part of the plate was deformed during the Alpine orogeny, when the Apulian plate collided with the European plate. The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century. ...
The African plate, shown in pinkish-orange The African Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Africa and extending westward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ...
A transform fault is a geological fault that is a special case of strike-slip faulting which terminates abruptly, at both ends, at a major transverse geological feature. ...
The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i. ...
In engineering mechanics, deformation is a change in shape due to an applied force. ...
The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass. ...
Continental collision is a phenomenon of the plate tectonics of our solid Earth. ...
The Eurasian plate, shown in green The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate covering Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the continents Europe and Asia) except that it does not cover the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Verkhoyansk Range in East Siberia. ...
The Apulian plate is still moving independently of the European plate, the fault zone that separates the two is the Periadriatic Seam that runs through the Alps. Fault in metamorphosed strata near Adelaide, Australia Geologic faults or simply faults are planar rock fractures which show evidence of relative movement. ...
Relief of the Alps, and the Periadriatic Seam The Periadriatic Seam is a distinct geologic fault in Southern Europe, running S-shaped about 1000 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea through the whole Southern Alps as far as Hungary. ...
The eastern Italian Peninsula and the Adriatic Sea are on the Apulian plate. Mesozoic sedimentary rocks deposited on the plate include the limestones that form the Southern Calcareous Alps. Satellite view of the Peninsula in spring The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula (Italian: Penisola italiana or Penisola appenninica) is one of the greatest peninsulas of Europe, spanning 1,000 km from the Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. ...
A satellite image of the Adriatic Sea. ...
The Mesozoic is one of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon. ...
Two types of sedimentary rock: limey shale overlaid by limestone. ...
Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ...
The Southern Limestone Alps are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps. ...
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