Eurasian lithospheric plates

The structure and geological history of the Caucasus are largely determined by its position between the stillconverging Eurasian and Africa-Arabian lithospheric plates, within a wide zone of continental collision.

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The Great Caucasus is a northwest−southeast-directed mountain range more than 1100 km long, located between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. It represents an intracontinental tectonic system resulting from the Late Cenozoic structural inversion of a Palaeozoic−Mesozoic−Early Cenozoic back-arc basin (Dizi basin) in response to the convergence of the Africa-Arabian and Eurasian lithospheric plates.

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The Caucasian mobile belt is situated in the area of Late Cenozoic collision of the large Afro-Arabian and Eurasian lithospheric plates. Extensive volcanic activity in the Georgian part of the Caucasian mobile belt took place during the Late Miocene−Holocene.

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