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  • In Eastern Turkey, the Arabian Plate - a huge slab of the Earth's crust - is slowly smashing into the Eurasian Plate at a speed of less than 1 inch per year 24 millimeters per year.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Since the Arabian Plate is moving one to one-and-a-half centimeters per year, there is a collision with another plate - the Persian Plate.

    unknown title 2009

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