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A New Ocean in the Making: East Africa’s Tectonic Shift Poised to Split the ContinentBy Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...
The movements of tectonic plates are more than usual and, in many cases, they are not of major importance. In addition, if there is one thing that the geographical history of the w ...
Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique will be affected by the split between the Nubian and Somali plates. The plates are diverging by 7 mm every year.
The East African Rift results from the movement of two tectonic plates: the Somali plate in the east and the Nubian plate in the west, gradually pulling apart and deepening the fissure.
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