Divergent Plate

1. Great African Rift Valley

2. Mid Atlantic Ridge

3. Definition

3.1. Plates move away from each other

4. Types of plate divergence

4.1. Oceanic-oceanic

4.1.1. Magma rises to fill the gaps when the plate move apart.

4.1.2. New sea floor is formed when magma cools and solidifies known as sea-floor spreading.

4.1.3. Newly formed rocks are closest to the plate boundaries and therefore younger than those further away

4.2. Continental-continental

4.2.1. When plates diverge or move apart, it is being stretched, causing fractures to form at the plate boundary.

4.2.2. Land between the continental crusts sinks, forming a linear depression known as rift valley.