continuous valley but rather acomplex system of interconnected rifts, faults, and geographic depressions that span approximately 6,000 to 7,000 kilometers (3,700 to 4,300 miles). Scientists believe it may eventually split the African continent into two distinct landmasses—a transformation...
Geologists say that the growing tear has led to renewed questions about the African continent splitting in two in millions of years. Currently, the Eastern African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000 km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, dividing the African plate ...
It will take millions of years, but geologists expect the eastern African to split from the rest of the continent (see below). The African Continent will certainly benefit from the increase in the length of its coastline. Suddenly eastern DRC and whole sections of Southern Sudan will not be ...
In the interior of the continent, the data are consistent with single-layer anisotropy, but show significant spatial variations in splitting parameters. A set of temporary stations across the Heimefront shear zone in western DML yield splitting directions that we interpret as frozen anisotropy from ...
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