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A 4,000-mile crack is tearing through Africa - then scientists saw what was rising below
The Great Rift Valley stretches roughly 4,000 miles across Africa, where deep tectonic forces are slowly pulling the continent apart. Beneath about 120 million people, the Nubian and Somali plates are ...
A geological upheaval of unprecedented magnitude is underway in East Africa: the gradual formation of a new ocean. This phenomenon, closely monitored by scientists, could ultimately divide the African ...
A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...
Helium gases from deep inside Earth were found in Zambia’s hot springs. This proves the Kafue Rift may be forming a new plate ...
If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a Frontiers in Earth Science study published yesterday, an ...
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