Research shows a massive crack will split Africa one day
BY JUDITH KAYI AYIDOMON
Researchers have concluded that one day the African continent will break into two, with a new ocean emerging between the two parts. The separation, according to a research paper published by Nature Communications, will occur along the 310-mile-long region spanning Kenya and Ethiopia known as Turkana Rift, which exhibits characteristics of late-stage continental rifting.
Christian Rowan, a Ph.D. candidate at Columba University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, explains that continental rifting happens when the Earth’s crust—the outermost layer that is rocky and hard—begins to extend, causing the crust to start to fracture and subside as it extends, then breaks.
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