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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Alessandro Mullen

21 April, 16:58

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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Dustin Myers · Answer 1

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.