Our western, southern, and eastern boundaries along the African Plate were very similar to the actual boundaries portrayed on Google Earth. It was made known that the redish color along the western part of the African plate showed characteristics of a divergent boundary. These characteristics include it gets older as the boundary is pushed out, volcanic activity was scattered, earthquakes are spread out by boundaries and shallow, and usually include higher elevation. The western, eastern and southern parts of the boundary also had signs of transform boundaries (the blue) scattered throughout. There were no signs of volcanic activity, shallow earthquakes, higher elevation, and younger ocean floor is in the center. The only difference we noticed between our two maps was that we labeled the NE part of the boundary differently. In our original map we noted that there was less volcanic activity in that region. The Google Earth map portrayed it as very similar to the rest of the southern and western boundaries.
Along the top part of the African plate there are convergent boundaries (purple). Here, earthquakes are more spread out, earthquakes are considerably deep, and volcanic mountains are noticed here. This is where a subduction zone is found.
The orange part of the map shows no significant data.
Mel, Erin, Cassandra, Marissa
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