A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart.

The shallow waters of the rift valley can be ideal environments for limestones to form. Here is a nice summary of sedimentation on divergent margins ... New ocean floor is generated at the diverging ...

Here, the Nubian and Somali plates, which were once united, are slowly separating from each other, creating the Great Rift Valley ... is evidence of a divergent boundary, where two tectonic ...