The African Plate is a major tectonic plate hat divided by the equatorial into two halves and this plate covers an approx area of 61,300,000 km square and is bounded by the Atlantic ocean and the mediterranean sea in the north and is bounded the Antarctica from the south. and has south American plate on the west.
<u>The plate also has a rift valley formation on its right side with the red sea and this plate continues to move in the eastern and the upwards direction of movement at a speed to 2.15 cm per year and is an origin of the supercontinent named as the Gondwana landmass.
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Thus surrounded by the South American, the antarctic and the Eurasian plate form all sides as given in the map.
