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English: Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes(red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded, centre) -- 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.
Date 5 May 1999
Source http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/East_Africa.html
Author USGS

Licensing

Public domain This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.

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