Arabian Plate

The Arabian plate is shown in bright yellow on this map

The Arabian Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Arabian peninsula and extending northward to Turkey. The plate borders are:

• East, with the Indo-Australian Plate
• South, with the African Plate to the west and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east
• West, divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the northern part of the Great Rift Valley and the Red Sea rift zone.
• North, with the Eurasian Plate