GEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Continental Drift, Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceanic Crust
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All located in east africa in a chain. They are valleys from where places in the world are splitting apart. Africa not moving, but other continents are moving away creating rift valleys, rift lakes too. Separated from indian plate, it is going to the. It was once a rift valley but it has split off. Mountains why is there is no major mountain range in africa, where are. It is the only continent without a mountain range because they are the central continent, no collusion from plates hitting an oceanic plate since it did not move. They are located in the rift valley region. Africa has low rainfall compared with other regions because all the ocean currents miss africa. The currents are what cause rainfall and none of these currents hit. Africa because of the earth spinning on its axis, they go around the coast or away from it. Forests are located in central potion and along west coast.
