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Arabian Sea

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Arabian Sea ancient Mare Erythraeum, northwest part of the Indian Ocean, lying between Arabia and India. The Gulf of Aden, extended by the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Oman, extended by the Persian Gulf, are its principal arms. The submarine Carlsberg ridge, SE of Socotra Island, is the sea's southern boundary. The Indus River is the largest stream flowing into the sea. The Arabian Sea has long been an important trade route between India and the West; its chief ports are Aden, Yemen; Karachi, Pakistan; and Mumbai, India.

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Arabian Plate

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Arabian Plate One of the present-day minor lithospheric plates, separated from the African Plate by the spreading Red Sea, the continuation of the Carlsberg Ridge into the Gulf of Aden, and the Dead Sea transform system, while the boundary with the Indo-Australian Plate is the Owen Fracture Zone; the plate is colliding with the Iran Plate.

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century.(Book... Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004
	PRE-20TH CENTURY HISTORY-Arabian Seas 1700-1763 Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 2/24/2012
	Monsoon winds and carbon cycles in the Arabian Sea. Magazine article from: Oceanus; 9/22/1997