Southwest Asia
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Southwest Asia. North Africa. Physiography. Black Sea. Caspian Sea. Mediterranean Sea. Arabian Sea. D. Hardin. CONVERGENT BOUNDARY. Block fault mountains. Caucasus. Black Sea. Caspian Sea. Mediterranean Sea. Elbruz. Atlas. Arabian Sea. CONVERGENT BOUNDARY. Barbary Coast. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Transcript of Southwest Asia
MediterraneanSea
Arabian
Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
D. Hardin
AtlasMediterraneanSea
Arabian
Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Elbruz
Caucasus
CONVERGENT BOUNDARYBlock fault mountains
CONVERGENT BOUNDARYBlock fault mountains
Atlas Mountains
D. Hardin
Barbary CoastToubkal (13,665’)
Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Pillars ofHercules
Mt. Elbrus (18,642’)
CONVERGENT BOUNDARYBlock fault mountains
Caucasus Mountains
D. Hardin
BlackSea
CaspianSea
Prometheus
Sochi
CONVERGENT BOUNDARYBlock fault mountains
Elburz Mountains
D. Hardin
Mount Damāvand (18,602’) Zahāk Aži Dahāka
TehranCaspian Sea
Mt. Damāvand
AnatolianPlateau
Zagros
MediterraneanSea
Arabian
Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
CONVERGENT BOUNDARYWarping and folding
Zagros Mts.
CONVERGENT BOUNDARYWarping and folding
D. Hardin
AnatolianPlateau
RIFT ZONESRed Sea
Gulf of Suez
SinaiPeninsula
Gulf o
f Aqa
ba
Red Sea
Arabian
Peninsula
D. Hardin
RIFT ZONESEthiopian Highlands
Afar
Triangle
Arabian
Peninsula
Great
Rift Va
lley
RedSea
ArabianSea
Tisissat FallsBlue Nile
Lake Abaya
Erta Al
Asal Rift, Djibouti (-492’)
LakeAsal
Ethio
pian H
ighlan
ds
D. Hardin
JordanValley/Dead SeaFault
MediterraneanSea
Arabian
Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
North AnatolianFault
TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES
D. Hardin
D. Hardin
TRANSFORM BOUNDARIESJordan Valley/Dead Sea Fault
Afr
ican
Pla
te
Ara
bian
Pla
te
Jerusalem
Dead Sea (-1,360’)
Mount of Beatitudes
Sea of Galilee
Golan Heights
Jordan River
Salt columns
TRANSFORM BOUNDARIESNorth Anatolian Fault
D. Hardin
Eurasian Plate
Anatolian Plate
Black SeaSea ofMarmara
TRANSFORM BOUNDARIESNorth Anatolian FaultIzmit, Turkey earthquake
November 12, 1999Magnitude 7.2
D. Hardin
TRANSFORM BOUNDARIESNorth Anatolian FaultBosporus & Dardanelles
D. Hardin
BlackSea
AegeanSea
BosporusByzantiumConstantinople
Istanbul
Dardanelles
Sea of Marmara
Troy
Bulgaria
Greece
Turkey
Istanbul
OIL
OIL
AlgeriaLibya
SaudiArabia
Kazakhstan
IranIraq
Kuwait
Turkmenistan
PersianGulf
MediterraneanSea
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Red Sea
NATO
MediterraneanSea
Arabian
Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
STRATEGIC WATERWAYSChoke points
Bosporus &Darnanelles
SuezCanal
Bab-el-Mandab
Strait ofHormuz
CrimeaBlack Sea Fleet
STRATEGIC WATERWAYSChoke points
Bab al MandebStrait of Hormuz
Strait of Malacca
Suez CanalBosporus/Dardanelles
Strait of Gibraltar
Panama Canal
