You and your Muslim loanword Continental construct part 016 - Wednesday 19 February 2014 Yesterday we dealt with Melilla. The Süddeutsche Zeitung put it true that the EU territory Mini along with Ceuta is the only one that had a land border with Africa. This does not mean that Ceuta and Melilla have an African-European border. The EU is ultimately political, not geological . The possible answers to geological European-African borders can fail richly varied depending on the definition . When we turn to the traditional answer, then today we come to the Caucasus ( Continental construct # 16). While it behaves somewhat complicated by the younger , southern offshore , especially Turkish mountain ranges. But in the end it can be said that the so-called Arab plate is pressed 2.5 cm per year against the Eurasian plate and thus the Caucasus caulked into the air. The Arabian plate is expected usually to Asia. This is geologically wrong. She is a subunit of the African plate , which begins to dissolve within it. Together they migrate north . Geologically, ie , the Caucasus is a European-African frontier dar. But the EU has no border. Currently . Depending on the country of continental boundary line in the Caucasus is rated different : the one situate the border in the middle, as the tops of the mountains. The others want to know the European frontier at the foot of the mountain. The differences were purely historical fact , who all came up with the idea times to define this mountain as a continental border. At a time when you did not know existed from the continental drift and therefore in the Grenziehung not mind oriented, geologically part of which rock to which plate . Defining the mountain range in the first place as a continental border, so it was a pure fluke . On the other side to accept Asia , however, was a fatal mistake. That is not to figure out today from the minds of people titmouses . Also, for political reasons the decision-makers ...
Posted on: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:41:38 +0000
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