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When Continents Split and Oceans Are Born: The East African Rift’s Slow March Toward a Sixth Ocean and a New Africa
The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...
A Continent Is Splitting And It May Create A Whole New Ocean, Eventually!
The movement of tectonic plates can be responsible for many things, including, volcanoes, geysers, and valleys. But where ...
Scientists discovery why one of the world's continents apart at double speed
A massive crack is forming beneath one of the world's continents, and scientists believe it could one day split the continent ...
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Massive Gravity Hole Discovered in the Indian Ocean—And What’s Beneath Could Redefine Earth’s Evolution
The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) is a significant geophysical anomaly ... The fate of the IOGL depends on how plate tectonics and mantle dynamics evolve. As Prof. Ghosh notes, “It could be that it ...
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Something massive is happening beneath the Himalayas that could break the Indian plate into two: Study
A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data reveals the Indian plate is splitting in two beneath Tibet, with the ...
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Emerick, C.M. and Duncan, R.A. (1982) Age Progressive Volcanism in the Comores Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean and Implications for Somali Plate Tectonics. Earth and ...
ABSTRACT: The Karthala massif, which covers the entire central and southern part of the island of Grande Comore, is made up of massive basalt flows, both vesicular and non-vesicular, pahoehoe and ...
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Researchers Are Worried a New Ocean and Continent Could Appear on Earth Faster Than We Thought
“What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean ... resides near the boundaries of the African, Arabian, and Somali plates, confirming the start of an impending continental drift. The report ...
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Indian Ocean plate rupture causes tremor
The deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake that jolted Dingri county of Shigatse in the Xizang autonomous region on Tuesday happened following a northward compression from the Indian Ocean plate and ...
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20 years of the 2004 tsunami: What triggered the deadly waves in the Indian Ocean?
at a depth of about 30 kilometers beneath the ocean floor. WHAT CAUSED THE EARTHQUAKE? The mega earthquake resulted from the collision between the Indo-Australian tectonic plate and the smaller Burma ...
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2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami | The Hindu’s looks back at the tragedy after two decades
December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ... The 2004 earthquake ripped through 1,300 km of the plate boundary, the fault tearing from Sumatra in the ...
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How the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake transformed tsunami science
December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ... was 30 km below the ocean floor, in the Sunda trench, where part of the Indo-Australian plate subducts beneath ...