This gap acts like a divergent plate boundary where the land is being pulled apart.
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It lies along the oceanic divergent plate boundary of North American Plate and Eurasian Plate.
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This once-active divergent plate boundary became the passive, trailing edge of westward moving North America.
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Over millions of years, tectonic plates may move many hundreds of kilometers away from both sides of a divergent plate boundary.
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Volcanoes located at convergent plate boundaries emit more water vapor and chlorine than volcanoes at hot spot or divergent plate boundary volcanoes.
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The hotspot is located near the Equator on the Nazca Plate not far from the divergent plate boundary with the Cocos Plate.
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In particular, the Juan de Fuca plate s divergent plate boundary has resulted in the existence of seafloor hydrothermal vents ecosystems, and other similar groups.
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Detachment faults have been found on the sea floor close to divergent plate boundaries characterised by a limited supply of upwelling magma such as the Southwest Indian Ridge.
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The "'Afar Triple Junction "'( also called the "'Afro-Arabian Rift System "') is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the Arabian plates.
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The hotspot is believed to be over 20 million years old and in that time there has been interaction between the hotspot, both of these plates, and the divergent plate boundary, at the Galapagos Spreading Centre.
