The shallow waters of the rift valley can be ideal environments for limestones to form. Diagram of an opening rift valley: at stage B the valley is dominated by rivers, and at stage C by shallow ...

The rift valley is a classic example of a divergent plate boundary. Photograph by Chris Johns. SCIENCE; REFERENCE; Plate Tectonics. ... At divergent boundaries in the oceans, ...

Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. ... The Continental Crush (collisional boundary) Slippin' and a Slidin' (transform boundary) ...