• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rift
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(from the article `plate tectonics`) Upwelling of magma causes the overlying lithosphere to uplift and stretch. If the diverging plates are capped by continental crust, fractures develop ... ...or transform, faulting. The East Pacific Rise is representative of a divergent boundary where the Pacific Plate and the Nazca Plate (west of Sou...
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The tearing apart of a plate to form a depression in the Earth's crust and often eventually separating the plate into two or more smaller plates.
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