Is the African Plate growing or shrinking?

Question

Please explain.

Answer 1

Same size, its only shifting like any other of the tectonic plates.  Right now it is moving towards eurasia, it will form a continent with them in 15-25 million years

Answer 2

overall all the 'plates' are gradually being eroded and reduced in size but only by a small amount. the tectonic plates have moved around for millennium and will eventually collide.

  ( probably without man by that time living on them)

volcanoes replace much of the material that is eroded into the sea bed but there is a gradual decline in existing land mass.

  so the answer is overall and not by much! the African plate ( like all others) IS shrinking.

Answer 3

Growing.

It is growing on three sides, because it is bounded by spreading ridges between the plate and the North American plate, South American, Australian, and Arabian plates. The northern boundary with the Eurasian plate is not a divergent boundary except for a small section near the Azores.

Answer 4

African plate is growing.  It stretches from the center of the Atlantic, where Mid-Atlantic Ridge is spreading the sea floor.  It takes a space from shrinking plates in the Pacific, which are pushed under North American Plate or under Philippine Plate.  The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider and so it’s the section of the African Plate.  African Plate is being pushed under Europe as well, but since the plate crashed against Eurasia plate, the plate disappears at much slower rate than the rate of creation of new sea floor in Atlantic.  However, African Plate is getting torn at the eastern section, Great Rift Valley, and a new plate will be cut out of it.  But when it will happened, the African Plate will be larger than it is now.

Answer 5

Its not growing or shrinking.

Its just that the African plate is slowly moving East (Or maybe West, don't quote me on that) and that creates the illusion that its growing, when really its just very gradualling relocating.

Hope it helps...