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The Hearty Soul on MSNA Mysterious Heartbeat is Coming From Earth's Core That Is Splitting Africa In TwoBeneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is ...
"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...
The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...
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Explorersweb on MSNEarth’s Hidden Heartbeat Is Slowly Creating A New OceanBeneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the groundwork for a new ocean.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of ...
Several winters ago, a team of geophysicists from Missouri flew to the eastern edge of Africa, strapped on bulky backpacks and began walking. They were looking for a set of huge stripes in the ...
Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...
The pulsing plume of hot mantle beneath Ethiopia, driven by plate tectonics, is slowly pulling the region apart and forming a new ocean near the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, researchers reported ...
ETHIOPIA became landlocked in 1992, when its Red Sea coast was lost to the new state of Eritrea. It lost access to its former ports soon afterwards. Since the outbreak of a vicious two-year war ...
Magnetic stripes on the ocean floor are hallmarks of seafloor spreading, but have now been found on the ground in Ethiopia where crust is pulling apart. Skip to main content.
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