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