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Africa is splitting into two continents and a vast new ocean could eventually open up
Africa is gradually splitting in two. As with most geological processes, it unfolds at a glacial pace over millions of years, ...
Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...
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Scientists found a crack so massive it will form a new ocean
Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...
Earth’s oceans, party of five. Sitting together at the salty dinner table that is the globe, there’s the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans – mingling, reveling, occasionally ...
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