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The far more common name for the plate is Adriatic, not Apulian. Both should be mentioned, but the article title should reflect the usage. Tmangray (talk) 17:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First we have to draw tectonic boundaries, because it is tectonic plate. Southern boundary is on current picture wrong. It includes oceanic crust which subducts bellow Calabria, This oceanic crust is part of African plate. (This piece of oceanic crust is peculiar in sense that is oldest oceanic crust sill in its original space, 280 Ma old compared to max 180 Ma in the rest of world oceanic crust, (picture speaks more then thousand words)) There is triple junction between Adriatic plate, African Plate and "Calabrian Plate" (rest of Italy plate, cant remember name). At this triple junction, this oceanic crust is completely subducted westwad and Adriatic Plate is in direct contact with rest of Italy plate (until I check references for better name). Adriatic plate is subducting here westward. This collisional zone is responsible for Appenine Mountains Orogeny. At the North Europe is subducting bellow Adria, hence Alps are part of Adria. Adria includes also Dinarides and part of Hellenides...to be continued... Obradow (talk) 08:55, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The image in the article was derived from this paper. Go ahead and improve the article if you like, but because you're so new to Wikipedia, go slowly and consult with other editors frequently. Be sure to cite sources for your additions, and steer clear of original research. Cheers! — Gorthian (talk) 17:05, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gorthian! I find what this people do exiting. It is incredible that we can see plate move. I love this stuff. But we just define plate differently. For them is this current coherent part of earth crust-plate, if I understand it well. That is ok. The thing is that for me Adria plate is piece of continetal crust, African crust which drifted (or maybe failed to drift completely), but was definitely thinned continental crust submerged in shallow water. It was like Bahamas, carbonate platform, typical warm climate passive continental margin. Since Triassic until Eocene for sure and maybe even now in Adriatic sea. These rocks make now Austroalpine units of Internal Alps and Central and Inner West Carpathians, Southern Alps and Dinarides ^[1] .

Adria continetal block is important because it collision with surroundings gave rise to Alps, Apennines and Dinarides even parts of Carpathian. I think we should have the same language when we speak about this stuff. And I mean even at this wiki somebody wrote that oceanic crust belongs to African plate, I found reference ^[2] that states that age of this oceanic crust is 270 Ma (Late Permian) to 230 Ma (Middle Triassic). There is clear subduction of this piece of oceanic crust under Calabria westwards and in Hellenic trench northward. We have same rocks in Apulia and Albania and Greece and so called Apulian Units in Albania and Greece ^[3]

and the reference there.  But I still have to reference all this stuff which I said at beginning, which I know I read it  somewhere or learned at university. That is not original research it is just knowledge which is lost in too many literature, we have to get out.

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