{"id":204908,"date":"2025-01-30T04:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-oceanic-plate-between-arabian-and-eurasian-continental-plates-is-breaking-away"},"modified":"2025-01-30T04:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:43:13","slug":"the-oceanic-plate-between-arabian-and-eurasian-continental-plates-is-breaking-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-oceanic-plate-between-arabian-and-eurasian-continental-plates-is-breaking-away","title":{"rendered":"The oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oceanic-plate-between-arabian-and-eurasian-continental-plates-is-breaking-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by the University of G\u00f6ttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last 20 million years. Their research has revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth\u2019s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate\u2014the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents\u2014is breaking off horizontally, with a tear progressively lengthening from southeast Turkey to northwest Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings show how the evolution of the Earth\u2019s surface is controlled by processes deep within the planet\u2019s interior. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/se.copernicus.org\/articles\/15\/1365\/2024\/\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Solid Earth.<\/p>\n<p>When two continents converge over millions of years, the oceanic floor between them slides to great depths beneath the continents. Eventually, the continents collide, and masses of rock from their edges are lifted up into towering mountain ranges. Over millions of years, the immense weight of these mountains causes the Earth\u2019s surface around them to bend downward. Over time, sediments eroded from the mountains accumulate in this <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/depression\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">depression<\/a>, forming plains such as Mesopotamia in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by the University of G\u00f6ttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last 20 million years. Their research has revealed that in the present day, deep below [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}