Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American, African ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process ...

The fault system linking the European and African plates extends over a length of 300 kilometers / ICM-CSIC. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

and it marks the boundary where the African plate is slowly pulling apart. According to a Times of India report, over time, this separation has led to the formation of two distinct tectonic plates ...