Meet the New Continent: East Africa
In only a million years we'll have an eighth continent, courtesy of the drift between African and Arabian tectonic plates.
Oct 31, 2006 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:52 AM
During the next one million years, theEthiopian rift will extend from the RedSea to the Indian Ocean. When it does,the Horn of Africa will become a newcontinent. | NASA
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