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Africa is being split in two by terrifying crack in Earth's surface - faster than expected
The rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across East Africa through the Red Sea, with its two tectonic plates, the Nubian and Somali ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...
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Rift in Paradise
The western rift includes the Virunga and Rwenzori mountain ... and plundered national parks, the last places on Earth where wildlife struggles to survive undisturbed by humans.
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Africa is going through a massive breakup thanks to an impending continental separation
In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.
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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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' Africa will split in two': Scientists warn of a possible sixth ocean forming for Earth
Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two separate landmasses. While this ...
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The Red Sea - Oceanic rift in the Gulf of Tadjoura
The northern region, with its diverse array of marine life, is one of the most visited dive locations on earth while the southern ... be witnessed first hand. The rift is a narrow crack under ...