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Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley ( Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. [1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise ...
The name "Pangaea" is derived from Ancient Greek pan ( πᾶν, "all, entire, whole") and Gaia or Gaea ( Γαῖα, " Mother Earth, land"). [4] [9] The first to suggest that the continents were once joined and later separated may have been Abraham Ortelius in 1596. [10] The concept that the continents once formed a contiguous land mass was ...
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate and two parts of the African Plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Scientists estimate that the rift could one day even split Africa in two and form an entirely new ocean (though that might take awhile, as the two plates are currently moving a part and the ...
A massive rift in Ethiopia separated continental plates by 400 feet and is part of a rift network that may flood enough to create a new ocean in 2 million years.
Contiguous transcontinental states are those countries that have one continuous or immediately adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary.More specifically, they contain a portion of their territory on one continent and a portion of their territory on another continent, while having these two portions connected via a natural geological land connection (e.g. Russia) or the ...
Millions of years from now, a new ocean and continent will be formed separating East Africa from the mainland. Scientists have said that the 35-mile-long crack in the Ethiopian desert is the first ...
Laurasia (/ l ɔː ˈ r eɪ ʒ ə,-ʃ i ə /) was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around ), the other being Gondwana.It separated from Gondwana (beginning in the late Triassic period) during the breakup of Pangaea, drifting farther north after the split and finally broke apart with the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean c. 56 Mya.