The Arabian Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the northern and eastern

hemispheres.
It is one of three continental plates (the African, Arabian, and Indian Plates)
that have been moving northward in recent geological history and colliding
with the Eurasian Plate. This is resulting in a mingling of plate pieces and
mountain ranges extending in the west from the Pyrenees, crossing Southern
Europe to Iran, forming the Alborz and Zagros Mountains, to the Himalayas
and ranges of southeast Asia.[2]

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Lexicology[edit]
The Arabian Plate is the most common designation of the region, although it
is also sometimes referred to as the Arab Plate.[3]
Borders[edit]

Eurasian, Anatolian and Arabian (purple coloring) plates

The Arabian Plate consists mostly of the Arabian peninsula; it extends
eastward at the Sinai and the Red Sea and northward to the Levant. The
plate borders are:
East, with the Indian Plate, at the Owen Fracture Zone
South, with the African Plate to the west and the Somali Plate and the
Indian Plate to the east
West, a left lateral fault boundary with the African Plate called the Dead Sea
Transform (DST), and a divergent boundary with the African Plate
 called the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea;
North, complex convergent boundary with the Anatolian Plate and Eurasian
Plate.[4]