New Ocean Forming, to Split Africa Into Two, Scientists Say NewTimesRwanda: Africa
The recent study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, combines seismic data from the rift formation to demonstrate that it is driven by processes similar to those at the ocean's bottom. The tectonic plates of Africa and Arabia collide in the desert and have been gradually separating for about 30 million years. The same motion has also split the Red Sea, but this is only happening at a rate of a fraction of an inch per year.
Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation , reports that many have expressed shock at the prospect and possibility of a new ocean forming in Africa. According to Dr. Edwin Dindi of the Department of Geology in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Nairobi, it is possible that indeed an ocean is forming along the eastern arm of the African Rift Valley.
"The Eastern arm of the Rift Valley is fairly active, this is seen in the many tremors that occur around it," he says and adds,"it will however take a long time probably millions of years for such it to happen. Geologists put Earth formation at 4.5 billion years ago. Followed by the formation of the continental crust 3.2 billion years ago., the continental shelf began forming when the melting rocks beneath the earth's surface pushed through the columns on to the earth, forming the supercontinent.
Dindi in an interview at the Department of Geology says the tectonic plates are in a state of flux with some shifting against each other along fault zones, some falling beneath one another, while others crash against one another, tearing apart from each other at divergent plate boundaries. This motion led to the formation of the various continents as we know them today; Africa, South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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