A piece of Africa in Europe? New insights into plate tectonics of the Balkans

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Feb 9, 2026, 3:40 pm50 ptsTrending
Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million years ago far away from the sinking zone. How this phenomenon of so-called vertical extrusion can be explained and whether the Rhodope mountain range in southern…

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