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A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Plate tectonics map. The East African Rift (Great Rift Valley) in eastern Africa; The Mid-Atlantic Ridge system separates the North American plate and the South American plate in the west from the African plate and the Eurasian plate in the east; The Gakkel Ridge is a slow spreading ridge located in the Arctic Ocean
The Victoria plate showing its relationship to the neighbouring Nubian, Somali, and Rovuma plates. The Victoria microplate or Victoria plate is a small tectonic plate in East Africa. It is bounded on all sides by parts of the active East African Rift System. It is currently rotating anticlockwise.
The Somali Plate is moving away from the African Plate in a split from Djibouti in the north, to Eswatini in the south. [2] The parting of these two plates formed the southern part of what used to be known as The Great Rift Valley. [3] In geological terms, the African and Somali plate separation has formed the East African Rift System (EARS ...
The Azores triple junction is a geologic triple junction where the boundaries of three tectonic plates intersect: the North American plate, the Eurasian plate and the African plate, R-R-R. [9] The Boso triple junction offshore of Japan is a T-T-T triple junction between the Okhotsk microplate, Pacific plate and Philippine Sea plate.
The Midcontinent Rift System in North America is marked by a series of horsts extending from Lake Superior to Kansas. [ 12 ] The Rwenzori Mountains in the East African Rift are an upthrown fault block, and are the highest non-volcanic, non-orogenic mountains in the world.
A massive rift in Ethiopia separated continental plates by 400 feet and is part of a rift network that may flood enough to create a new ocean in 2 million years. A New Ocean Could Split Africa ...
The East African Rift, where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—which eventually led to the formation of the Lwandle plate as well as other microplates. The Afar Triangle, shaded at the center, is a triple junction that separates the three plates. [6]