EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: North Anatolian Fault, Arabian-Nubian Shield, Arabian Plate
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The red sea is an embryonic ocean and the surrounding area is being uplifted. Africa and europe: sinai plate (part of the african plate) is moving north at different velocities, the dead sea is the lowest point on land anywhere on earth, 420 m below sea level. The sea breaks through, and then over time it starts to evaporate. Death valley is 42 metres below sea level: petra was an important trade center where fresh horses and animals, get water, banks were located. And a lot of the ocean floor, a lot of the oceanic crust, including the mid-ocean ridge, has been pushed up on land. Iceland finds itself sitting on top of a major mantle plume and the plume is heating the rocks above and they"re rising, they become buoyant. So, what the effect the plume is, is to push this part of the.
