Resources for the study of East Africa as a whole
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- Map of East Africa showing tectonic plates
- USGS, 5 May 1999. The Afar Triangle (shaded, center)—a
so-called triple junction (or triple point), where three plates are
pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts
of the African Plate (the Nubian and the Somalian) splitting along
the East African Rift Zone.