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   Baikal Rift Zone
   The Baikal Rift Zone is a divergent plate boundary centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia. To its west is the Eurasian Plate and to its east is the Amur Plate which is moving away from the rift toward Japan at about 4 mm per year. As in all divergent plate boundary zones, the crust in ...
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   Baikal Rift Zone
   (from the article `mountain`) ...is actively occurring. The eastward displacement of crustal blocks along major strike-slip faults also seems to have caused rift systems to open ... ...axis west of the valley. Thus, the most rapid sinking is along the valley`s eastern edge, where the lowest point in...
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