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What caused the great rift valleys of eastern africa
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What caused the great rift valleys of eastern africa

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The great rift valleys of the Eastern Africa was caused by the splitting of the African plates to two new separate plates. It is also moving away from the Arabian plate. These two tectonic plates are now called the Somali plate and Nubian plate. 
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