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The seismicity and fault plane solutions in the Mediterranean area show that two small rapidly moving plates exist in the Eastern Mediterranean, and such plates may be a common feature of contracting ocean basins. The results show that the concepts of plate tectonics apply to instantaneous motions across continental plate boundaries.
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MCKENZIE, D. Plate Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region. Nature 226, 239–243 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226239a0
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