The "'Chile Rise "'or "'Chile Ridge "'is an oceanic ridge, a tectonic divergent plate boundary between the subducted below the South American Plate in the Peru Chile Trench.
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Today, the term is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new separate plates.
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All of the volcanic eruptions in Iceland, such as the 1973 eruption of Eldfell, the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallaj�kull, are caused by the North American and the Eurasian plates moving apart, which is a result of divergent plate boundary forces.
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A close-up look at the Cascades reveals a more complicated picture than the simple subduction zone shown in the image on theleft . Not far off the coast of the North Pacific lies a spreading ridge; a divergent plate boundary made up of a series of breaks in the oceanic crust where new ocean crust is created.