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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Eos, 8 May 2020 - Are We Seeing a New Ocean Starting to Form in Africa?

Title:
Are We Seeing a New Ocean Starting to Form in Africa?

Author:
Erik Klemetti

Published:
Eos, 8 May 2020

From this article:
"Standing next to a lava lake at the summit of a massive volcano, Christopher Moore, a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, could see the red haze of lava flows a few kilometers away. This might seem like a rare sight, but at Ethiopia’s Erta Ale, it’s business as usual.  

Are such behaviors the first signs of a tectonic transition? This question is part of what Moore has been studying at Erta Ale."

To read more:
https://eos.org/articles/are-we-seeing-a-new-ocean-starting-to-form-in-africa