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Kaleva

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3. Yes

Reply to Takket (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 5, 2018, 02:09 AM

Apr 2018

"Today, the term is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new separate plates. Geologists generally refer to these incipient plates as the Nubian Plate and the Somali Plate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_Valley

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Is this essentially a new tectonic boundary forming? Takket Apr 2018 #1

Yes Kaleva Apr 2018 #3

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