The Tisza Plate is a

tectonic block A tectonic block is a part of the Earth's crust that can be treated as a solid rigid crustal block or lithospheric section. A tectonic block may be bounded by faults. It may move from one place to another because of a tectonic shift, and they ma ...

, or microplate, in present-day Europe. The two major crustal blocks of the

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, Pelso and Tisza, underwent a complex process of rotation and extension of variable magnitude during the

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era. The northward push of the Adriatic Block initiated the eastward displacement and rotation of both the Alcapa (or Pelso) and Tisza blocks. The Zágráb- Hernád line is the former plate margin between the Pelso of

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origin and the Tisza Plate of

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origin.

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