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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Iberian plate, List of tectonic plates, North American Plate, Nazca Plate, Philippine Mobile Belt, Caribbean Plate, Carnegie Ridge, Indo-Australian Plate, African Plate, Indian Plate, Greenland Plate, Pacific Plate, Okhotsk Plate, Burma Plate, Cimmerian Plate, Juan de Fuca Plate, Kerguelen Plateau, Farallon Plate, Seychelles Plate, Cocos Plate, Kula Plate, South China, Halmahera Plate, Molucca Sea Plate, Rivera Plate, Pelso Plate, Halmahera Arc, Philippine Sea Plate, Arabian Plate, Eurasian Plate, Anatolian Plate, Sangihe Plate, Siberia, Sunda Plate, South American Plate, Madagascar Plate, Gorda Plate, Shan-Thai Terrane, Yangtze Plate, Somali Plate, Apulian Plate, Intermontane Plate, Amurian Plate, Mariana Plate, Bird's Head Plate, Banda Sea Plate, Antarctic Plate, Solomon Sea Plate, Tisza Plate, Aegean Sea Plate, New Hebrides Plate, Galapagos Microplate, Scotia Plate, Tonga Plate, Izanagi Plate, North Galapagos Microplate, North Bismarck Plate, Explorer Plate, Balmoral Reef Plate, Caroline Plate, Niuafo'ou Plate, Timor Plate, Maoke Plate, Kermadec Plate, South Bismarck Plate, Conway Reef Plate, Panama Plate, Easter Plate, Juan Fernandez Plate, North Andes Plate, South Sandwich Plate, Okinawa Plate, Shetland Plate, Baltic Plate, Altiplano Plate, Woodlark Plate, Futuna Plate, Iranian Plate, Manus Plate, Insular Plate, Moa Plate, Lhasa Plate, Philippine-Halmahera Arc. Excerpt: The microcontinent Iberia encompassed not only the Iberian Peninsula but also Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, and the Brianconnais zone of the Penninic nappes of the Alps. Nowadays, the Iberian plate is a part of the Eurasian plate. The Iberian plate came into existence during the Cadomian Orogeny of the late Neoproterozoic, about 650-550 Ma, on the margin of the Gondwana continent, involving the collisions and accretion of the island a...
