{"id":115879,"date":"2020-11-14T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/east-african-rift-system-is-slowly-breaking-away-with-madagascar-splitting-into-pieces"},"modified":"2020-11-14T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:23:06","slug":"east-african-rift-system-is-slowly-breaking-away-with-madagascar-splitting-into-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/east-african-rift-system-is-slowly-breaking-away-with-madagascar-splitting-into-pieces","title":{"rendered":"East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/east-african-rift-system-is-slowly-breaking-away-with-madagascar-splitting-into-pieces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar\u2014the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa\u2014that itself will also break apart into smaller islands.<\/p>\n<p>These developments will redefine Africa and the Indian Ocean. The finding comes in a new study by D. Sarah Stamps of the Department of Geosciences for the journal <i>Geology<\/i>. The breakup is a continuation of the shattering of the supercontinent Pangea some 200 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, though, this isn\u2019t happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar\u2014the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa\u2014that itself will also break apart into smaller islands. These developments will redefine Africa and the Indian Ocean. The finding comes in a new [\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-115879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115879","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=115879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}