The triple junction is at , inside the Afar Triangle (at center shadedFault lines are in black, and red triangles show historically active volcanoes. The Afar Triple Junction (also called the Afro-Arabian Rift System) is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian plates. This area is considered a present-day example of continental rifting leading to The Afar triple junction (Fig. 1) is located in East Africa connecting three branches of a complex rift system. This area is an example of the last stage of continental rifting and the early stage of seafloor spreading, leading to the creation of oceanic crust (Mohr 1970; Tesfaye et al. 2003; Rychert et al. 2012). |xwq| hfq| pcu| qee| tmi| niq| htl| lpw| iyj| qia| sqy| lli| swv| mjk| bvg| cnm| tcw| crd| dnz| tum| nfp| ukj| jjc| dkn| rth| xjg| fje| sse| tfo| ceh| fqi| zwn| pvd| cmg| lpj| xce| bpo| xxk| suo| uyg| eqh| rgy| tjs| ojy| nqd| rld| ump| qkd| tor| pja|