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Anatomy of Nyiragongo
Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in ... and deadly of these volcanoes is Nyiragongo, a so-called stratovolcano located ...
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A new ocean? Scientists track dramatic (but slow) changes near Africa.
Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...
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'Earth is splitting into two': We will get a new ocean and continent faster than we thought
The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart, paving the way for a new ocean and reshaping Earth's geography in real-time. A study by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology reveals ...
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'Africa is splitting': Continent's split could form a massive ocean sooner than expected!
The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...