The East African Rift System stretches 4,000 miles, from Jordan down to Mozambique. In this vast network of fractures in the Earth’s surface, new tectonic plates are forming as old ones slowly break apart. It is useful to geologists as a modern model of how continents separate. (Graphic via nature.com)
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