Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...
Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the Earth’s crust—so slowly that no one alive today will witness its final outcome, yet fast ...
A crack in the Earth’s crust – which could be the forerunner to a new ocean – ripped open in just days in 2005, a new study suggests. The opening, located in the Afar region of Ethiopia, presents a ...