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Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than Scientists Thought. Now What?
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East Africa drifts apart in millimetres: In Kenya's Turkana Rift, the crust is already extremely thin – much thinner than expected.
In the East African rift system, a process is underway that could tear Africa into two parts in the long term. A new study now shows that the earth's crust in the Turkana tomb is already much thinner than geologists have previously assumed.
Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than Scientists Thought. Now What?
This story is a good-news, bad-news situation. According to a study published in Nature Communications, the bad news is that part of eastern Africa is slowly tearing itself away from the rest of the continent. Even worse, it’s further along than scientists thought. The “sooner than expected” part needs context, though. We’re still talking hundreds of thousands to millions of years, not something that will ruin your upcoming Kenyan safari tour. S…
in Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart
Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found that Earth’s underlying crust in the region has been significantly thinned, presaging Africa’s eventual breakup—and with that finding, the researchers offer a new perspective on how Turkana’s world-famous fossil record of human evolution came to be…
The Earth's crust beneath part of East Africa appears to be much thinner than previously assumed. And that holds a surprising advantage for researchers. The continents do not stand still. They slide and collide, and sometimes they even tear in two. The latter happens in phases. First, the crust stretches over a large area. Then […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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