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Why Is Africa Splitting Into Two Continents?
This crack marks the boundary of three tectonic plates—the African Nubian, African Somali, and Arabian plates—that have been slowly pulling away from each other. Christopher Moore, a doctoral ...
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The 'world's sixth ocean' that is slowly forming inside Africa
The crack is found on the African, Arabian and Somali tectonic plate boundaries. For the past 30 million years, the Arabian plate has been slowly moving away from the African continent.
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New ocean is being born on Earth: Close to America, but is “strange”
An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.