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     The Eurasian plate, shown in green
     The Eurasian plate, shown in green

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia. Plate tectonics (from Greek τέκτων tektōn "builder" or "mason" describes the large scale motions of Earth 's Lithosphere For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four. A continent is one of several large Landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by Convention rather than any strict criteria with seven regions This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia For geopolitical treatments see South Asia. The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šibh al-jazīra al-ʻarabīya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al-ʻarab) The Chersky Range is a chain of Mountains in northeastern Siberia. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving It also includes oceanic crust extending westward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and northward to the Gakkel Ridge. Oceanic crust is the part of Earth's Lithosphere that surfaces in the Ocean basins The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR is a Mid-ocean ridge, a Divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The Gakkel Ridge (formerly known as the Nansen Cordillera and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge) is a Mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary

The easterly side is a boundary with the North American Plate to the north and a boundary with the Philippine Plate to the south, and possibly with the Okhotsk Plate and the Amurian Plate. The North American Plate is a Tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland and part of Siberia. The Philippine Plate is a Tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Philippines. The Okhotsk Plate is a Tectonic plate covering the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and Eastern Japan. The southerly side is a boundary with the African Plate to the west, the Arabian Plate in the middle and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east. The African Plate is a Tectonic plate which includes the Continent of Africa, as well as oceanic crust which lies between the continent and various surrounding The Arabian Plate is one of three Tectonic plates (the African Arabian and Indian crustal plates) which have been moving northward over millions of The Indo-Australian Plate is a major Tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding Ocean, and extends northwest to include the The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the North American Plate forming the northernmost part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is straddled by Iceland. In Plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland (

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