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The red sea is a young divergent plate boundary, otherwise known as a rift zone.
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What type of plate boundaries occur at the Red Sea?
Divergent
What type of land features are found around divergent boundaries?
There are two places that divergent boundaries occur. Under the sea where magma pushes up to form lava ridges and at the divergence at the Red Sea near the Suez canal.
In what type of home do red wolves live?
Red wolves to not construct any form of home.
What type of boundary does the red sea affect?
I believe the red sea is located at a divergent plate boundary.
As the African plate and the Arabian plate move away from one another a body of water called the red sea continues to grow what type of boundary exists here?
divergent
Why do tall mountains form at converging tectonic plate boundraies but not typically at sliding or diverging tectonic plate boundaries?
From Plate Tectonics 101, mountain ranges are not formed at sliding plate boundaries because the forces at work just drag the plates past each other. There isn't much "up" force associated with that. Mountain formation requires that "up" force, uplift, and it ain't there where plates slide. When plates diverge, a tear is formed with the resultant creation of a depression. The Red Sea was formed by the divergence of the African (Nubian) plate and the Arabian plate. The two plates are continuing to move apart, by the way. The convergence of plates creates mountains, and the classic (best) example is probably the plate boundary between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate. The northern part of the Indian plate is pushing hard into the southern part of the Eurasian plate. An irresistible force has met an immovable object. At the boundary, the plates engaged edges are crumpling, and the earth is being uplifted. A lot. The highest mountain in the world, and a bunch of the top ten tallest peaks, are all right there. The force exerted along the plate boundaries is unimaginable. And it's still pushing things higher.
What is the Red Sea believed to be the site of a recently formed?
divergent boundaries
What processes are going on in eastern Africa and what is the triple function?
In East Africa, spreading processes have already torn Saudi Arabia away from the rest of the African continent, forming the Red Sea. The actively splitting African Plate and the Arabian Plate meet in what geologists call a triple junction, which is where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet.
What color is moxie?
Moxie is red, because red is the color one sees when they step beyond they're boundaries.
What is full form of red cross?
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Witch 2 plates formed the rift valley that the Red Sea now occupies?
African Plate and Arabian Plate
What are some physical characteristics of quasars?
They're elliptical shaped and the typically have a red center because of all the red giants that form in this type of galaxy.
