New research finds pulsing molten mantle underneath Africa

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Geologists discover a seismic pulse inside the Earth under Africa that could end up dividing the continent in a few million years, giving rise to a new ocean.

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A new ocean is brewing under the soil of eastern Africa, as revealed by a recent study led by the University of Southampton and published at Nature Geoscience. At the heart of the Afar region, in the Horn of Africa, scientists identified it as an unprecedented geological phenomenon: the terrestrial mantle under the crust not only flows, but pulsates rhythmically, as if the Earth itself had a heartbeat. This process, which occurs millimeter by mi…