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This was interesting to watch. I've seen news articles on this. The video provides powerful visuals.
EarthAbides
(413 posts)Thank you for that!
FakeNoose
(40,001 posts)My sister spent 2 years in Kenya as a Peace Corps volunteer. I believe she was there a few years before 2005 when these "cracks" started happening.
IronLionZion
(50,728 posts)cab67
(3,619 posts)The fossil record of crocodiles in the Rift Valley is magnificent.
PatSeg
(51,968 posts)QueerDuck
(880 posts)in geological terms. --- This was a great video. Thanks for sharing it.
AverageOldGuy
(3,279 posts)What's the chance of Mar-A-Lago splitting off into the Gulf of Mexico and sinking? On the weekend, of course.
Zorro
(18,318 posts)It was a landscape of weirdly colored green pools of water surrounded by orange and sulfurous yellow rocks and salt pans. It's a sight unlike anything I'd ever seen before or since.
Uncle Joe
(64,082 posts)Thanks for the thread IronLionZion
IronLionZion
(50,728 posts)Yes, it can. Rising sea levels can increase pressure on underwater magma chambers
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/planet/climate-change-will-also-have-an-impact-on-volcanic-eruptions/
byronius
(7,888 posts) reminding us that massive change always lurks ahead.
Thanks for this post!
mgardener
(2,281 posts)Thanks!
NowsTheTime
(1,240 posts)"Dinosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era, which lasted from about 252 to 66 million years ago"
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#150
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(132,350 posts)A volcano in Ethiopia's northeastern region erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to nine miles into the sky, the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) said.
The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia's Afar region about 500 miles northeast of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours.
The volcano, which rises about 1,500 feet yards in altitude, sits within the Rift Valley, a zone of intense geological activity where two tectonic plates meet.
Ash clouds from the volcano drifted over Yemen, Oman, India, and northern Pakistan, said the VAAC, which posted a map of the path of the ash cloud.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/volcano-erupts-first-time-12-170053984.html
IronLionZion
(50,728 posts)maybe the world is ending
VGNonly
(8,323 posts)A 7.0 earthquake along the Canadian and Alaska border.
A 7.5 quake in Japan with tsunami warnings.
A 1,000 lava fountain in Hawaii.