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Is the plate boundary between the eurasian plate and african plate converging or diverging?

NEED TO KNOW ASAP! Thanks!

Update:

Hey Pharaoh thanks for the information and star. Unfortunately I already knew that and I am looking for if this boundary in particular is converging or diverging. I think it is converging but I am not sure.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Active Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics,

    "Hot Spots" and the "Ring of Fire"

    http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/...

    According to the new, generally accepted "plate-tectonics" theory, scientists believe that the Earth's surface is broken into a number of shifting slabs or plates, which average about 50 miles in thickness. These plates move relative to one another above a hotter, deeper, more mobile zone at average rates as great as a few inches per year. Most of the world's active volcanoes are located along or near the boundaries between shifting plates and are called "plate-boundary" volcanoes. However, some active volcanoes are not associated with plate boundaries, and many of these so-called "intra-plate" volcanoes form roughly linear chains in the interior of some oceanic plates. The Hawaiian Islands provide perhaps the best example of an "intra-plate" volcanic chain, developed by the northwest-moving Pacific Plate passing over an inferred "hot spot" that initiates the magma-generation and volcano-formation process. The peripheral areas of the Pacific Ocean Basin, containing the boundaries of several plates are dotted by many active volcanoes that form the so-called "Ring of Fire". The "Ring" provides excellent examples of "plate-boundary" volcanoes, including Mount St. Helens. ...

    http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/...

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    A divergent plate boudary has 2 plates diverging from one yet another, kinda like <- ->. those arrows pass removed from one yet another. this will possibly not create lithosphere or asthenosphere using fact they are formed evidently and are got here upon under and above mantle. Continental crust is formed from converging boundaruies. So, while 2 plates diverge, they deliver about area it truly is filled up by making use of water. I recommend that oceanic crust is the only answer that fits the question.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    A divergent plate boudary has 2 plates diverging from one yet another, kinda like <- ->. those arrows circulate removed from one yet another. this would possibly not create lithosphere or asthenosphere by way of fact they are shaped clearly and are discovered decrease than and above mantle. Continental crust is formed from converging boundaruies. So, whilst 2 plates diverge, they carry about area that's crammed up by capacity of water. I mean that oceanic crust is the only answer that suits the question.

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