A massive rift is splitting Africa apart forming Earth's sixth ocean

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...
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A new forming rift begins to detach southern Africa

Zambia's hot springs offer a clue to tectonic activity in southern Africa. By analyzing gases bubbling to the surface, researchers detected helium isotopes typical of the Earth's mantle, located ...
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Massive crack will one day split the continent of Africa, researchers say

The African continent will one day break in two, with a new ocean filling the void between the separation, scientists say. Researchers have determined that Eastern Africa will likely split from the ...
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Sedimentation in the African rifts edited by L.E. Frostick [and others]

African rift tectonics and sedimentation : an introduction / H.G. Reading -- Geomorphology of the African Rift System / A.T. Grove -- Geophysical controls on sedimentation within the African rift ...

Scientists Think Africa May Be Cracking Along a New Tectonic Plate Boundary

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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Africa is splitting in two: Scientists uncover a new tectonic boundary forming in Zambia

Scientists have discovered a new tectonic boundary forming under Zambia, and it could tear Africa in two.
Smithsonian Magazine

East Africa Might Break Off From the Continent Sooner Than Scientists Thought—and a New Ocean May Fill the Gap

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water may flood it in a few million years ...