Earth’s sixth ocean is forming but will split the African continent in two
A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...
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What Did Pangaea Look like
Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my ...
Why Is Africa Splitting Into Two Continents?
Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...
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Triassic Period
By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...