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Is Africa splitting into two continents?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAn overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs The East African Rift is a network of valleys that...
Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMarie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
Is Africa Splitting in Two? Really? Here's the Scoop
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe notion of Africa splitting has the attention scientists and geologists worldwide, as the Great Rift Valley stretches and tears at the Earth's crust.
How many tectonic plates does Earth have?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMap of Earth's principal tectonic plates. Earth's lithosphere. Major and minor plates. arrows indicate direction of movement at plate boundaries. Vector...
Kenya's Rift Valley lakes are rising, putting thousands at risk – we now know why
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA May 2022 drone image of the submerged main entrance to Lake Nakuru National Park. Photo by James...
Mushroom-shaped superplume of scorching hot rock may be splitting Africa in 2
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agolandscape showing the east africa rift valley panorama from Ethiopia The East Africa Rift Valley is...
Is Africa Splitting? Unraveling the Possibility of a Divided Continent
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIs Africa splitting and creating a new ocean and two new continents? This is what some scientists...
The split of the African plate could gift six landlocked countries a coastline
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoAfrica is gradually splitting into two. The Somali and the Nubian tectonic plates are slowly...
A New Discovery May Help Predict When Africa Will Ultimately Split in Two
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoWe Now Know Why the World's Largest Rift Is WeirdAbstract Aerial Art The East African Rift System...
A New Ocean Could Split Africa Into Two Continents, Scientists Say
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA massive rift in Ethiopia separated continental plates by 400 feet and is part of a rift network...