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Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea D. Hardin

Atlas Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea Elbruz Caucasus CONVERGENT BOUNDARY Block fault mountains

CONVERGENT BOUNDARY Block fault mountains Atlas Mountains D. Hardin Barbary Coast Toubkal (13,665’) Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco Pillars of Hercules

Mt. Elbrus (18,642’) CONVERGENT BOUNDARY Block fault mountains Caucasus Mountains D. Hardin Black Sea Caspian Sea Prometheus Sochi

CONVERGENT BOUNDARY Block fault mountains Elburz Mountains D. Hardin Mount Damāvand (18,602’) ZahākAži Dahāka Tehran Caspian Sea Mt. Damāvand

Anatolian Plateau Zagros Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea CONVERGENT BOUNDARY Warping and folding

Zagros Mts. CONVERGENT BOUNDARY Warping and folding D. Hardin Anatolian Plateau

RIFT ZONES Red Sea Gulf of Suez Sinai Peninsula Gulf of Aqaba Red Sea Arabian Peninsula D. Hardin

RIFT ZONES Ethiopian Highlands Afar Triangle Arabian Peninsula Great Rift Valley Red Sea Arabian Sea Tisissat Falls Blue Nile Lake Abaya Erta Al Asal Rift, Djibouti (-492’) Lake Asal Ethiopian Highlands D. Hardin

Jordan Valley/ Dead Sea Fault Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea North Anatolian Fault TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES D. Hardin

TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES Jordan Valley/Dead Sea Fault African Plate Arabian Plate Jerusalem Dead Sea (-1,360’) Mount of Beatitudes Sea of Galilee Golan Heights Jordan River Salt columns

TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES North Anatolian Fault D. Hardin Eurasian Plate Anatolian Plate BlackSea Sea of Marmara

TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES North Anatolian Fault Izmit, Turkey earthquake November 12, 1999 Magnitude 7.2 D. Hardin

TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES North Anatolian Fault Bosporus & Dardanelles D. Hardin Black Sea Aegean Sea Bosporus Byzantium Constantinople Istanbul Dardanelles Sea of Marmara Troy Bulgaria Greece Turkey Istanbul

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Algeria Libya Saudi Arabia Kazakhstan Iran Iraq Kuwait Turkmenistan Persian Gulf Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea Red Sea

NATO Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea STRATEGIC WATERWAYS Choke points Bosporus & Darnanelles Suez Canal Bab-el-Mandab Strait of Hormuz Crimea Black Sea Fleet

STRATEGIC WATERWAYS Choke points Bab al Mandeb Strait of Hormuz Strait of Malacca Suez Canal Bosporus/Dardanelles Strait of Gibraltar Panama Canal