Iranian plate
The Iranian plate is a small lithospheric plate , part of a continental plate in Asia . Such small plates are also known as microplates . It is part of the south of the Eurasian plate . The Indian plate is in the east, the Arabian plate in the south and the Anatolian plate in the west. The Iranian highlands , most of Afghanistan , western Pakistan and part of eastern Turkey lie on the Iranian plate . The southwest of Iran is part of the Arabian plate, the seam of the Iranian and Arabian plate runs through the middle of the Zagros , and dips southward into the Gulf of Oman . The seam to the Indian plate jagged follows the eastern flank of Baluchistan against the Indus lowlands, and merges into the main seam of the Himalayas in the Kashmir area . The plate boundary is less pronounced towards the central Urasian mass. The Iranian highlands themselves, although embedded in the Alpid mountain belt, are presumably not to be assigned to the Alpid orogeny, but rather to be seen in connection with the formation of the Urals and Hajar (Omanzug).
Due to the numerous plate boundaries and tectonic fault zones, severe earthquakes are to be expected in the region .
See also
- List of earthquakes : 662 BC Chr., 850, 856, 871, 893, 1042, 1101, 1202, 1336, 1639, 1641, 1721, 1727, 1755, 1778, 1780, 1853, 1893, 1895, 1909, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1957, 1962 , 1968, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1990, 1997
- List of earthquakes of the 21st century : 2002, 2003 , Sarand earthquakes in 2005 , 2006, 2010, 2017
literature
- William B. Fisher: The Middle East. A Physical, Social, and Regional Geography. 7th edition, completely revised and reset. Methuen, Routledge 1978, ISBN 0-416-71520-6 , pp. 15-16.
Web links
- Plate Tectonics (English, pdf; 9.8 MB) (accessed December 19, 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Earthquake in the central Iranian province of Kerman. Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hanover, accessed on January 6, 2014 .
- ↑ O. Thiele: On the age of metamorphosis in central Iran . In: Communications from the Geological Society in Vienna . 58th volume. Vienna 1965, p. 87–101 ( pdf , Uni Innsbruck [accessed on February 4, 2014]).