The Afar Triple Junction (also called the Afro-Arabian Rift System) is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian...
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The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley...
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A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet. At the triple junction each of the three boundaries will be one of...
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African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting...
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the Afar Triple Junction, the rift follows two paths: west to the Red Sea Rift and east to the Aden Ridge in the Gulf of Aden. Southward from the Afar Triple...
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East Africa Afar Triple Junction, a geological rift system which divides the Nubian, Somalian, and Arabian plates French Territory of the Afars and the Issas...
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Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar Triple Junction. In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran...
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with the Aden Ridge and the East African Rift, forming the Afar Triple Junction in the Afar Depression of the Horn of Africa. The Red Sea Rift was formed...
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Outline of plate tectonics (section Triple junctions)
Ocean Afar Triple Junction – Place where three tectonic rifts meet in East Africa Azores Triple Junction – Tectonic plates intersection Banda Sea Triple Junction –...
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break-up of Gondwana can be said to continue in eastern Africa at the Afar Triple Junction, which separates the Arabian, Nubian, and Somali plates, resulting...
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portal Geography portal Geology portal Afar Triangle – Geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction Geography of Iceland List of oceanic landforms –...
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metres (26 ft) wide dike within days. The Afar Depression, a plate tectonic triple junction, is found in the Afar Regional State. This geologic feature is...
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Main Ethiopian Rift as the opening of the Gregory rift caused the Afar Triple Junction to form. Volcanism from the Middle Pleistocene onward formed a chain...
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upwelling which may cause narrow rift zones, such as those of the Afar Triple Junction. Geologic processes that elevate heat flow are varied, however some...
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extending from the Owen Transform Fault in the Arabian Sea to the Afar Triple Junction or Afar Plume beneath the Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti. The Gulf of Aden...
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Arabian Plate lies adjacent to the Afar Triple Junction (an area of spreading ridges) near the Red Sea. The triple junction marks the intersecting point of...
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hotspot), w= .2 az= 030° ±15° rate= 16 ±8 mm/yr Possibly related to the Afar Triple Junction, 30 Ma. Cameroon hotspot (17) 2°00′N 5°06′E / 2.0°N 5.1°E / 2...
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Erta Ale (category Afar Region)
the lakes' searingly hot temperatures. Erta Ale is located in the Afar triple junction where three tectonic plates split apart: the African Plate, the Arabian...
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Danakil Depression (category Afar Region)
The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia and Eritrea, a geological depression that has resulted...
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half-grabens similar to the East African Rift, which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa. The Northern Cordilleran rift system...
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part extends northward from a triple point junction near the island of Rodrigues (the Rodrigues Triple Point) to a junction with the Owen Fracture Zone...
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Hopkins he became interested in the plate tectonics of the Afar Depression, a triple (rift) junction in northeastern Ethiopia. In 1971 he moved to Addis Ababa...
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a 3,000-km-long Cenozoic age continental rift extending from the Afar Triple Junction (between the horn of Africa and the Middle East), to Mozambique....
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Afar rift consortium, an inter-disciplinary study of how the Earth’s crust grows at divergent plate boundaries, looking at the Afar Triple Junction....
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southwestern point of the Arabian Plate. At this location lies the Afar Triple Junction, where it meets the Nubian and Somali plates at three divergent boundaries...
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Lake Abbe (category Afar Region)
It lies at the Afar Triple Junction, the central meeting place for the three pieces of the Earth's crust, a defining feature of the Afar Depression. Here...
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Plate to the east. One hypothesis proposes a mantle plume rising beneath the Afar region pushing the crust outward, whereas an opposing hypothesis explains...
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to form the East African Rift, which stretches south from the triple junction in the Afar depression. The southern boundary with the Nubian-African Plate...
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those associated with the East African Rift, which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa. List of volcanoes in the United...
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rift arms at approximately 120-degree angles. These areas are named triple junctions and can be found in several places across the world today. The separated...
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