{"id":110096,"date":"2020-07-17T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/geologists-say-a-new-ocean-is-opening-up-in-africa"},"modified":"2020-07-17T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:44:16","slug":"geologists-say-a-new-ocean-is-opening-up-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/geologists-say-a-new-ocean-is-opening-up-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"Geologists Say a New Ocean Is Opening up in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geologists-say-a-new-ocean-is-opening-up-in-africa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In somewhere between five and ten million years, the tectonic plates that form Africa are likely to rip apart so much that it\u2019ll eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/supercontinent-earth\">split the continent<\/a> in two.<\/p>\n<p>Within Ethiopia\u2019s Afar region, the Arabian, Nubian, and Somali tectonic plates are slowly pulling away from each other, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/african-continent-very-slowly-peeling-apart-scientists-say-new-ocean-n1234128\">NBC News<\/a> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/african-continent-very-slowly-peeling-apart-scientists-say-new-ocean-n1234128\">reports<\/a>, gradually creating a vast rift <em>\u2014 <\/em>slowly forming a new ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can see that oceanic crust is starting to form, because it\u2019s distinctly different from continental crust in its composition and density,\u201d University of Leeds Ph.D. student Christopher Moore told <em>NBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In somewhere between five and ten million years, the tectonic plates that form Africa are likely to rip apart so much that it\u2019ll eventually split the continent in two. Within Ethiopia\u2019s Afar region, the Arabian, Nubian, and Somali tectonic plates are slowly pulling away from each other, NBC News reports, gradually creating a vast rift [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}