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anzhelika [568]
3 years ago
13

A continental rift is also called a?

Geography
1 answer:
melisa1 [442]3 years ago
5 0
Continental Rifts are called Continental Plate or Divergent Boundary or Convergent Boundary or Continental Drift.
Hoped I helped:D
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