Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected ... and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from ...
Can you imagine seeing the formation of a whole new ocean? One of the continents seems to be tearing itself apart to form the Earth's sixth ocean.
It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953 ... In some places the canyon, called the Great Global Rift, came very close to land. The rift appeared to be breaks in the earth's crust, but ...