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Earth’s sixth ocean is beginning to form, though it may be millions of years before we properly see it<\/h2>\n

Planet Earth’s sixth ocean has been spotted slowly emerging in what is a geological phenomenon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While experts have been researching our planet for many a generation now, they continue to learn new things every single day.<\/p>\n

In recent years, researchers discovered two parts of land, which make up our planet’s second-largest and second-most populous continent,\u00a0beginning to separate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This has in turn made way for a whole new ocean to run through the middle of it.<\/p>\n

And if things continue the way they are, we could soon see a situation where countries such as Zambia and Uganda have their own coastline, despite currently being landlocked.<\/p>\n

While many of\u00a0Earth’s<\/a>\u00a0changes may not seem noticeable to the naked eye, tectonic plates are constantly on the move.<\/p>\n

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Landlocked Zambia could one day have its coastline (Getty Stock Photo)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The Earth’s lithosphere, which is formed by the crust and the upper part of the mantle, is separated into a number of these tectonic plates.<\/p>\n

And it’s the movement of tectonic plates in a certain part of the world that is changing our planet as we know it.<\/p>\n

The peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters confirmed that a new ocean is being created as the\u00a0African continent is beginning to split in half<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The crack is found on the borders of the boundaries of the African, Arabian and Somali tectonic plates.<\/p>\n

For the past 30 million years, the Arabian plate has been slowly moving away from the African continent.<\/p>\n

The Somali plate is also moving away from the African plate – peeling its way through the East African Plate in the process.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the advancement in technology, particularly through the use of GPS instruments, experts are able to make precise conclusions of such land movements.<\/p>\n

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A crack is appearing through Africa (University of Rochester)<\/cite><\/div>\n

A marine geophysicist and a professor based at the University of California, Ken Macdonald, said: “With GPS measurements, you can measure rates of movement down to a few millimetres per year.<\/p>\n

“As we get more and more measurements from GPS, we can get a much greater sense of what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of the discovery as a whole, Macdonald added: “The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of East Africa will become its own separate small continent.”<\/p>\n

While it is still millions of years away at this point, such geographic event will lead to a new ocean across the entirety of the rift.<\/p>\n

This is already happening, according to experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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