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What is an example of a continental to continental divergence?
the great rift valley of Africa
What is a rift valley?
A rift valley is a linear lowland between highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic fault or rift zone. It often forms where tectonic plates are moving apart, leading to the stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust, resulting in a depressed landscape. Rift valleys can be found on land or beneath the ocean.
Rift valley forms at?
A divergent continental plate boundary.
A rift valley can form where two continental plates when they are what?
divide
When two continental plates converge does a rift valley forms?
No. Continental convergent plate boundaries form fold mountain ranges. A rift valley will form at a divergent plate boundary.
When two continental plates converge a rift valley form?
No. Continental convergent plate boundaries form fold mountain ranges. A rift valley will form at a divergent plate boundary.
What is another name for a rift valley?
A failed rift valley is known as an aulacogen. It is a three-way continental plate junction in which two of the ridges continue spreading while the third stops. Examples of failed rift valleys are the Rio Grande Rift and the East African Rift.
Does a rift valley form when two continental plates diverge?
yes it does
Which of the following landforms result from divergence of continental crust?
a rift valley
Plate tectonics what forms along continental divergent boundaries?
rift valley
What is a rifts?
Rift valleys occur when continental plates are pulling apart from one another, for example the East African Rift Valley.
When the continental plates pull apart at the divergent boundary on land what forms?
Rift valley
