A new ocean is being formed in Africa

Africa is slowly but surely tearing in two. Like anything in geology, it’s an extremely long process that will take millions of years, but it will eventually see part of East Africa chip off from the rest of the continent, likely resulting in a new ocean arising between the two land masses.

An international effort has revealed that a 35 miles long rift appeared in the Ethiopian deserts of the Far region in 2005 and is probably the start of a brand-new sea.

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A new study in the journal Nature found that the two pieces of land are separating at a rate of 7 millimeters per year. Nations like Zambia and Uganda will have their own coastlines.

Scientists claim that several currently active volcanoes along the river, including the Aloo Dalapila in Ethiopia and the Old wenyolangai in Tanzania, provide new insights into the process. However, in another 5 million to 10 million years, changes in the EARS could result in a drastically different-looking world. Around this time frame, we are likely to see a new ocean form between the Somalian plate and the Nubian plate. The great continent of Africa will lose its eastern shoulder and a vast sea will cut off East Africa.

As strange as this may seem, it’s worth remembering that Earth’s surface is in a constant state of flux; it’s just so slow that human experience can’t account for it.
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Oh dear, and the new continents drifting about will alter existing ocean currents, top to bottom. This will cause ... *gasp* ... climate change.

originally posted by: ketsuko
Oh dear, and the new continents drifting about will alter existing ocean currents, top to bottom. This will cause ... *gasp* ... climate change.

Oh thanks Ketsuko, now there going to charge an African Ocean tax and mandate that all the Africa countries that are effected, need to migrate to the US and vote for Bernie.

a reply to: Violater1

I think this one needs to be China's fault. They are the ones buying up all the rare earth mining operations and digging so deep.

The Chinese delved too deeply and too greedily. They woke the Balrog.