Title:
Why the Victoria Plate in Africa rotates
By:
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Published:
Phys.org, 8 June 2020
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-victoria-plate-africa-rotates.html
From the article:
The East African Rift System (EARS) is a newly forming plate tectonic boundary at which the African continent is being separated into several plates. This is not a clean break. The system includes several rift arms and one or more smaller so-called microplates. According to GPS data, the Victoria microplate is moving in a counterclockwise rotation relative to Africa in contrast to the other plates involved.