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23 November, 19:31

The East African rift is a divergent plate boundary that is splitting the continent of Africa into two pieces. What will eventually form around this divergent boundary?

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  1. 23 November, 21:57
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    A new ocean basin.

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    The eastern African rift valley is an active plate margin and is an active Continental rift one in Africa and started to form about 20 - 25 million years ago in the Miocene. Is a narrow zone that develops as a divergent plate boundary as the processes of the spitting of the tectonic plates i. e Somalian and the Nubian plate. Breaking away of this plate will lead to the formation of the a new oceanic basin.
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