The continent of Africa is splitting into 2 tectonic plates in the middle of Ethiopia. In the recent past, geophysicists have improved their understanding of how tectonic plates like these separate. They’ve shown that continents begin to split apart as the crust and upper mantle, known as the lithosphere, crack and shift. Later, magma from deep within the Earth travels upward through these cracks to Earth’s surface, forming volcanoes. Therefore,…
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