The Arabian plate is a minor tectonic plate in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres. It is one of the three continental plates (along with the African and Indian plates) that have been moving northward in geological history and colliding with the Eurasian plate .

The fertility of the plate with respect to oil and gas can be attributed to its tectonic history. The conditions were such that the Arabian plate experienced approximately 570Ma of nearly uninterrupted sedimentation, an ideal setting for hydrocarbon generation. Read more on the RESOURCES page.

The African-Arabian region is composed of the following tectonic plates: Arabia, Madagascar, Nubia, Seychelles, and Somali (Figure 1). Figure 1: Overview of the African and Arabian tectonic plate region.

The Arabian Plate is one of the tectonic plates that form the earth’s crust. It moves northeastward as a result of the eruption of magmas along the Red Sea rift, which spreads annually at a rate of approximately 15 mm.

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.

The Arabian Plate The Arabian plate extends from the Red Sea to the Zagros and from the Gulf of Aden to the Taurus Mountains. It consists of Precambrian basement overlain by Tertiary and later volcanics in the west and marine and continental sedi-ments in …

2010年7月1日 · The Arabian Plate represents an excellent example of continental crust and lithosphere formation by plate-tectonic processes. Our effort to synthesize and integrate multiple lines of geoscientific evidence about the nature and evolution of the continental Arabian Plate yields important new insights.

2010年7月1日 · The Arabian Plate originated ∼ 25 Ma ago by rifting of NE Africa to form the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. It is one of the smaller and younger of the Earth's lithospheric plates. The upper part of its crust consists of crystalline Precambrian basement, Phanerozoic sedimentary cover as much as 10 km thick, and Cenozoic flood basalt (harrat).

2024年5月3日 · In this study, we investigate the upper‐mantle structure of the Arabian plate based on anelastic full‐waveform inversion. The Arabian plate is composed of two main geological provinces—the Arabian Platform in the east and the Arabian Shield in the west.

2022年3月14日 · The present-day motions in and around the Arabian plate involve a broad spectrum of tectonic processes including plate subduction, continental collision, seafloor spreading, intraplate magmatism, and continental transform faulting.