Thursday, July 20, 2006
Africa is splitting in two.
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(SilverJade - iol) from Ethiopia.
The two mighty tectonic plates that form Africa and Arabia are slowly ripping apart, a report published in Thursday's issue of British science journal Nature claims.
Research by an international team of geologists who monitored an earthquake and volcanic eruption in Ethiopia in September 2005 shows the plates that make up Africa and Arabia are gradually moving apart.
As a result of this long-term split, the north-east of Ethiopia and Eritrea will be torn from the rest of Africa and may eventually form a huge new sea, the study says.
The event, in the Afar desert at the southern end of the Red Sea, yielded only small amounts of volcanic material but was hugely significant in terms of geological movement, the geologists report.
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saying thanksPosted by SilverJade Posted by SilverJade
(SilverJade - iol) from Ethiopia.
The two mighty tectonic plates that form Africa and Arabia are slowly ripping apart, a report published in Thursday's issue of British science journal Nature claims.
Research by an international team of geologists who monitored an earthquake and volcanic eruption in Ethiopia in September 2005 shows the plates that make up Africa and Arabia are gradually moving apart.
As a result of this long-term split, the north-east of Ethiopia and Eritrea will be torn from the rest of Africa and may eventually form a huge new sea, the study says.
The event, in the Afar desert at the southern end of the Red Sea, yielded only small amounts of volcanic material but was hugely significant in terms of geological movement, the geologists report.
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