Attention all those people who think that geology happens over very long time scales: in 2005, a 35-mile-long rift tore open in the middle of Ethiopia. This happened over the course of days.

Scientists now believe that this is the start of a new ocean, which will open up over the course of the next million years or so.

Wow.

Grant Hamilton

  2 Responses to “Africa is being torn apart — literally. Geologically.”

  1. Might be an interesting time to sell if you lived in California as things moving one place likely send out an effect to elsewhere.

    I love the fact that even the scientific community is always learning.

  2. That’s crazy.

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