Africa is being torn apart — literally. Geologically.

 Posted by on 4 November 2009  Modern Life
Nov 042009
 

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

  • Mike Waddell

    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.

  • http://patrickjohanneson.com/ Pat J

    That’s crazy.