Are We Seeing a New Ocean Starting to Form in Africa? - Eos
2020年5月8日 · What we will be able to see standing on top of Erta Ale will change dramatically in 5 million, 50 million, or 100 million years. The question is whether Erta Ale and the Afar region will become a...
New Ocean Within Africa Could Take Millions of Years to Form
2023年3月27日 · Geologists can predict how the plates will shift in the future, and forecast that the East African Rift in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, among other African countries, will split open,...
Professor explains what will happen as Earth's sixth ocean slowly ...
2024年10月29日 · The new body of water has been confirmed by scientists to be appearing in the middle of the African continent, which is beginning to split in half. Where countries like Uganda and Zambia are currently landlocked, at some point …
Will We Have a New Ocean in Africa? - Discover Magazine
2023年3月23日 · Rift valleys have scientists rushing to understand the unpredictable forces that decide whether Africa splits in half or "fails" at rifting. Ethiopian desert could have new ocean in Africa. (Credit: yggdrasill/Shutterstock)
Africa and Asia are splitting apart: Earth will have a new continent ...
2025年1月10日 · The East African Rift Valley: A peek into future geography. The East African Rift isn’t merely an opening in the Earth’s crust but a potential window into future geography. Over the last 30 million years, the Nubian and Somali tectonic plates …
East African Rift Valley - ArcGIS StoryMaps
2024年1月31日 · Scientists have been following the movement of these plates and the rift and believe that these shifts could eventually change the geography of Eastern Africa tremendously. The Horn of Africa, Kenya. and eastern parts of Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique are splitting away from the rest of Africa at a rate of around 7 mm each year.
Shocking photos show Africa splitting apart as new ocean forms
2023年3月11日 · "The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of East Africa will become its own separate small continent.”
The great rift: Africa’s splitting plates could give birth to a new ...
2023年3月16日 · The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will eventually flood into the Afar region in Ethiopia and the East African Rift Valley, leading to the formation of a new ocean, according to Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist at the University of California, told media.
East African Rift - Wikipedia
The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the onset of the Miocene, 22–25 million years ago. [1] It was formerly considered to be part of a larger …
East African Rift Valley, East Africa
The East African Rift Valley (EAR) is a developing divergent plate boundary in East Africa. Here the eastern portion of Africa, the Somalian plate, is pulling away from the rest of the continent, that comprises the Nubian plate.