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The Maraş Triple Junction is found where the side-by-side African and Arabian plates, both drifting north and demarcated by the north-south trending
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Chorowicz, J.; Luxey, P.; Lyberis, N.; Carvalho, J.; Parrot, J.-F.; Yürür, T.; Gündogdu, N. (1994).
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The Maraş Triple Junction at the junction of the East Anatolian Fault and Dead Sea Transform
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Place where the Anatolian Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the Arabian Plate meet
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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National Earthquake Information Center (6 February 2023).
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Maras Triple Junction

triple junction
tectonic plates
Anatolian Plate
African Plate
Arabian Plate
Dead Sea Transform
East Anatolian Fault
Gulf of Alexandretta
Karlıova Triple Junction
2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
"The Maras Triple Junction (southern Turkey) based on digital elevation model and satellite imagery interpretation"
Bibcode
1994JGR....9920225C
doi
10.1029/94JB00321
"M 7.8 – 23 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey"
public domain
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t
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Triple junctions
Boso
Banda Sea
Aden-Owen-Carlsberg
Afar
Azores
Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone
Galapagos

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