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A country's splitting in two and it's going to create a new continent
They call this tectonic plate boundary zone the East African Rift Valley (EAR), part of the wider East African Rift System. The valley is so pronounced it’s visible from space. Once the split ...
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Africa is going through a massive breakup thanks to an impending continental separation
In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...
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'Africa is splitting': Continent's split could form a massive ocean sooner than expected!
The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...
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'Earth is splitting into two': We will get a new ocean and continent faster than we thought
The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart, paving the way for a new ocean and reshaping Earth's geography in real-time. A study by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology reveals ...
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The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart
Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...