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Why is Africa so flat?

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14y ago
Updated: 3/24/2020

Due to plate tectonics and its landscape. All of the tectonic plates are moving away from Africa, not towards it. That's why there are few mountain ranges and no continental size mountain chains that other continents demonstrate.

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