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A comment on Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010).

Re:Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) by finid on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:17PM (#13378761)
If that part of Africa splits from the rest of the continent, it will just be like Madagascar, which has been drifting away from Africa since we started noticed.
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Re:Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) by bcraven on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:45AM (#13381056)
Madagascar and Mozambique may be on different plates but they're actually separated by the Davie Ridge, a transform zone. You can see it nicely imaged in the seismic in this report:

http://www.iongeo.com/content/documents/Resource%20Center/Ar...

Then again, this zone does end up in the East African Triple Junction so you are technically correct.

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