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How does the African plate move and how did it come to its current location?
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∙ 13y ago
the two tectonic plates move toward each other. This tectonic action is called a convergent plate boundary. The heavier plate slides under the lighter plate causing the magma or heated rock to move upward. That magma finds a crevice in the earth's crust and a volcano is formed. In this case Mt. Vesuvius which destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabia in AD 79.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe African plate moves by the y cause of seafloor spreading which causes continental drift which is also why it is at its current location.
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∙ 9y agoThe African Plate's path is on a northeasterly course moving at a rate of 2.15 centimeters a year. All the boundaries to the west and south of the African Plate are divergent.
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