Africa Is Dividing and a New Ocean Is Forming Faster than Expected

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If you look at a map of Africa, it surely seems something fixed, almost motionless. However, under that silhouette that we all recognize is opening up a huge crack. It is the East African Rift System, a fracture that runs through the continent from south to north and that, if nothing changes, will end up giving rise to a new ocean. Not tomorrow or the past, but on geological time scales. In recent years, several scientific teams have fine-tuned …