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30 sty 2007 · Geologists Watch as African Continent is Torn Apart. Feleke Worku, a surveyor from the Ethiopian Mapping Agency, examines a ground rupture created during the September rifting event.(Image credit ...
5 kwi 2018 · The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.
17 gru 2023 · Part of east Africa is slowly splitting from the rest of the continent as tectonic plates pull apart from each other.
16 mar 2023 · During our early school years, we are taught that the Earth's continents were once merged together to form a single continent called Pangea, which eventually separated over millions of years. Now, further research has revealed the formation of Africa's new ocean, indicating that such geological transformations are ongoing.
26 kwi 2020 · The continent may be splitting apart, and so is consensus among geologists. Geologists thought they knew how Africa’s rifts, such as Ethiopia’s Da’Ure vent, would shape the continent. But new data suggest they don’t have the full picture.
25 wrz 2023 · A massive rift that opened in northeast Ethiopia in 2005 shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in a few days, achieving 400 years’ worth of separation that may help trigger the creation of ...
10 mar 2023 · Scientists say Africa is peeling apart into two parts that will eventually lead to the formation of a new ocean. While the process will take millions of years to complete, this will split present-day Somalia and parts of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania from the rest of the continent, as per reports
