Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling ... articles that explore the dynamic processes that occur during plate rifting. Case studies include both rifting on land, in ...

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where sedimentary rocks ... sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift valley will be ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart ... Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types ...

This process is occurring along the East African Rift System (EARS), a tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is being pulled apart. The East African Rift is causing the continent to ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ... The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

A large scale landform found along a conservative plate boundary is a fault line. One of the most active fault lines in the world is the San Andreas fault line in California, USA.

The rift outlined chunks of the earth's crust, which were named tectonic (from a Greek word ... volcanoes occur at the plates' edges. The large plate containing most of the Pacific Rim accounts ...

A dramatic transformation is unfolding in Africa as tectonic forces split the continent. The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean.