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Mar 10, 2023 · FP Explainers March 10, 2023, 18:08:22 IST. 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.
Apr 25, 2018 · Just as Africa divorced South America millions of years ago, Africa is itself now splitting in two. A giant crack in south-western Kenya that is visibly breaking apart the landscape, severing a major highway, points to this split that will see the continent divide apart.
Jul 15, 2014 · Africa is splitting in two. The reason: a geologic rift runs along the eastern side of the continent that one day, many millions of years in the future, will be replaced with an ocean. Scientists...
Dec 21, 2018 · The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000 km 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. Activity along the eastern branch of the rift valley, running along Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, became evident when the large crack suddenly ...
Jul 9, 2023 · 07-09-2023. African rift: Massive crack could split the continent in half. By Chrissy Sexton. Earth.com staff writer. A colossal fissure tearing through the southeastern part of Africa might be an omen of a geographical shift, according to recent scientific observations.
Mar 21, 2018 · East Africa is breaking up. A huge tectonic plate boundary 5,000 kilometers (about 3,100 miles) long is running up along the eastern section of the continent, which is manifested at the surface...
Apr 4, 2018 · The breakup will leave a large island in the Indian Ocean composed of parts of Ethiopia and Somalia, including the Horn of Africa.
