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What is happening at the great rift valley?
A rift valley is an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. The greatest example of this is the African Rift Valley. In any such valley there will be multiple volcanoes, and frequent earthquakes.
Where are the most explosive volcanoes subduction zones or rift zones?
Explosive volcanoes are most common at subduction zones.
What causes the volcanoes and deep valleys of East Africa?
The continental rift along which parts of the African continent are beginning to slowly separate
Why are volcanoes found along the Rift Valley?
Because it is on the edge of the plates
What volcanoes occur where two tectonic plates move apart and magma rises up to create new crust?
Rift volcanoes
What types of volcanoes form at mid-ocean ridges?
Rift volcanoes.
What are the characteristics of a rift valley?
Igneous. Crustal material is added in rift valleys by the addition of magma.
Are shield volcanoes hot spots?
Shield volcanoes are not hot spots but they are associated with them. However, such volcanoes can also form at rift zones.
What is happening at the great rift valley?
A rift valley is an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. The greatest example of this is the African Rift Valley. In any such valley there will be multiple volcanoes, and frequent earthquakes.
Where are the most explosive volcanoes subduction zones or rift zones?
Explosive volcanoes are most common at subduction zones.
What volcanoes occur where two plates move apart and magma rises up to create new crust?
Rift volcanoes
What are physical features of the great rift valley?
soda lakes and extinct volcanoes
Why are volcanoes found along the Rift Valley?
Because it is on the edge of the plates
What causes the volcanoes and deep valleys of East Africa?
The continental rift along which parts of the African continent are beginning to slowly separate
What volcanoes occur where two tectonic plates move apart and magma rises up to create new crust?
Rift volcanoes
Why are there many volcanoes?
Every time two of earth's tectonic plates meet you are apt to get volcanoes as a result of subduction. They also occur along plate spreading-rifts such as the Mid-Atlantic Rift and the Great Rift Valley in Africa.
What can Tectonic Plate activity cause?
Most often earthquakes, volcanoes, and rift valleys.
