Minor tectonic plate including the east coast of Africa and the adjoining seabed
Somali Plate
Type
Minor
Approximate area
16,700,000 km2[1]
Movement1
south-east
Speed1
6 mm/year
Features
East Africa, Madagascar, Indian Ocean
1Relative to the African Plate
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The Somali Plate is a minor tectonic plate which straddles the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is currently in the process of separating from the African Plate along the East African Rift Valley. It is approximately centered on the island of Madagascar and includes about half of the east coast of Africa, from the Gulf of Aden in the north through the East African Rift Valley. The southern boundary with the Nubian-African Plate is a diffuse plate boundary consisting of the Lwandle Plate.[2]
^Alden, Andrew (2017-03-17) Here Are the Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates. thoughtco.com
^Saria, E; Calais, E.; Stamps, D.S.; Delvaux, D.; Hartnady, C.J.H. (20 March 2014). "Present-day Kinematics of the East African Rift". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 119 (4): 3584–3600. Bibcode:2014JGRB..119.3584S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.723.5337. doi:10.1002/2013JB010901. S2CID 128891002.
The SomaliPlate is a minor tectonic plate which straddles the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is currently in the process of separating from the...
Plate and South American Plate to the west (separated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge); the Arabian Plate and SomaliPlate to the east; the Eurasian Plate,...
Lwandle Plate is one of three tectonic microplates, along with the Rovuma Plate and Victoria Plate, that make up the African Plate with the SomaliPlate and...
form the African Plate. The other three are the SomaliPlate, the Lwandle Plate and the Victoria Plate. Stamps, D. Sarah; Calais, Eric; Saria, Elifuraha;...
contribute to the Nubian Plate and the SomaliPlate Victoria Microplate Antarctic Plate East Antarctic Plate Shetland Plate – Tectonic microplate off...
African Plate, the SomaliPlate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Pacific Plate, and, across a transform boundary, the Scotia Plate. The Antarctic Plate has...
The plate borders are: East, with the Indo-Australian plate, at the Owen Fracture Zone South, with the African Plate to the west and the SomaliPlate and...
of rocks in the Zambezi valley. Mozambique entirely lies within the SomaliPlate. Mozambique has a tropical climate with two seasons, a wet season from...
to the Gondwana supercontinent and later the Indo-Australian Plate. Rifting in the Somali Basin began at the end of the Carboniferous 300 million years...
tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates, called the SomaliPlate and the Nubian Plate, at a...
ISBN 0-7534-5569-2 "SomaliPlate". Ashten Sawitsky. Retrieved 30 June 2015. Chu, D.; Gordon, R.G. (1999). "Evidence for motion between Nubia and Somalia along the...
India about 88 million years ago. It is geologically located within the Somaliplate. Madagascar has been called the "Great Red Island" because of the prominence...
into two new and separate plates. Geologists generally refer to these evolving plates as the Nubian Plate and the SomaliPlate. Today these rifts and faults...
boundary with the Nubian Plate, to the northeast and east with the SomaliPlate and to the southeast with the Rovuma Plate. Saria, E; Calais, E.; Stamps...
continent rests over two main plates. The African plate, accounting for the whole of north Africa, and the Somaliplate, which accounts for the eastern...
Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. It is geologically located within the Somaliplate. Area (includes Agaléga, Cargados Carajos (Saint Brandon), and Rodrigues):...
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...
al Barbar ("Land of the Berbers"). It is also known as the Somali peninsula or, in the Somali language, Geeska Afrika, Jasiiradda Soomaali or Gacandhulka...
African Rift, which splits Ethiopia into two, between the Nubian Plate and the SomaliPlate. The city is surrounded by the Special Zone of Oromia, and is...
abyssal plains, would feel smoother. Including the SomaliPlate, which is being formed out of the African Plate. See: Chorowicz, Jean (October 2005). "The East...
sometimes consumed with Somali curry, soup, or stew. Muufo is another type of Somali flatbread popular within south Somalia and is usually eaten with...
the Afar Triple Junction, which separates the Arabian, Nubian, and Somaliplates, resulting in rifting in the Red Sea and East African Rift. In the Early...
system. The rift is being caused by the separation of the Somaliplate from the Nubian plate, driven by a thermal plume. Although the term is sometimes...
constructed motifs, and calligraphy. Somalis have a rich musical heritage centered on traditional Somali folklore. Most Somali songs are pentatonic. That is...
Atlantic Ocean. A divergent tectonic plate boundary separating the SomaliPlate to the north from the Antarctic Plate to the south, the SWIR is characterised...
million years and influenced by the rifting apart of the SomaliPlate and the Arabian Plate. The oldest rock units in Somaliland date back over 700 million...
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