Everyone knows that there are five oceans: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Cold Ocean, the Other Ocean, and the Forget About One... but the five oceans are not cool.
Do you know what's cool?
Wait, Fanny Packs, that's not true. Oh, six oceans... Six oceans is cool—and what if I told you that I could get you a sixth ocean for the low low price of $12.99 per month.
I mean, you're going to have to wait 10 million years and 12.99 dollars isn't appropriate for the ocean, but I'm low on cash, and I'm going to have to buy a new fanny pack.
We need to do what privileged white kids are trying to get into Harvard to understand how this sixth ocean could form: go to Africa. In particular, to a faraway place called the Afar Region, a part of Ethiopia where three tectonic plates meet.
If you don't know, tectonic plates are the large parts of the earth's crust that shift slowly and make earthquakes and things occasionally. To explain, if you think the world is a grape, tectonic plates are as if that grape had huge parts of the surface of the earth on it that shift slowly and make earthquakes and things occasionally.
The meeting of the Arabian Plate to the North, the Nubian Plate to the West, and the Somali Plate to the East can be seen here in the Afar Region, forming a Y-shaped intersection almost as volatile as the ones Google draws with dotted lines.
The problem is that the plates pass, the Somali plate is slowly going south-east to the Indian and Australian plates, and the Arab plate is slowly heading north to the Eurasian plate, where the Persian Gulf will eventually be closed, ensuring that Saudi Arabia and Iran will eventually have a land boundary. Which I'm sure will go well with an extra-special fireworks display and be celebrated.
Because of, you know, all the rifts and stuff, this tectonic movement has created what is called "the Great Rift Valley": there's the Red Sea Rift to the west, the Aden Ridge to the east, the East African Rift to the south, and the Oculus Rift, in stores now for just $ 299 plus shipping and handling.
However, the secret to the future new ocean is the East African Rift. It is what is called a continental rift, a concept that currently holds the record for being the basis of a children's movie for the most esoteric geological phenomenon ever.
A continental rift starts to split two tectonic plates that make up a single continent, the Nubian and Somali plates, which together make up Africa, in this case.
The continental rift will transform into what's called an oceanic spreading ridge if they keep separating:, once the plates move far enough apart, they will form a large crack that will allow magma to flow from underneath them. Original Flavor and Africa 2: Electric Boogaloo and a new ocean will pass between the newly divided mini-continents, where it will cool down and create a new ocean floor, continuing until Africa has broken into Africa.
But you just shouldn't have your swimming trunks, sunscreen, and Aquaman traps out yet: it's going to be millions of years before this sixth ocean, which I'm suggesting we call either Ocean's 6, 6 Quick 6 Furious, or Ocean and the Chipmunks: The Sequel.
In the meantime, however, the slow separation of the plates has led to East Africa being home to a series of geological phenomena that are interesting and frightening in equal parts, just like the Facebook algorithm.
There's Erta Ale, Ethiopia's huge volcano, home to the longest-lasting lava lake in the world, and almost definitely a Fire Country.
Lake Tanganyika is the foundation. The second deepest lake in the world, and home to the Goliath Tiger Shark, which looks like a largemouth bass had a baby from It with a clown; and there's also a bunch of huge, tens of miles-long cracks that look like CGI portals to the underworld in the earth in Ethiopia and Kenya.
The point is, there's no easy way to say that, but there's a separation between the plates. It's not that they're not loving each other, and it's not that they're not loving you, but they just need some room.
Anything called the Afar plume is the principal explanation for this. Unlike the darkness of Jafar, the main source of strife in the direct-to-video sequel to Aladdin, the Afar plume is a part of the mantle of the Earth heated by underground magma.
If you have ever stolen or tooted a hot air balloon in the pool, except, don't check me on the second one, you'll know that heat tends to increase things, which is exactly what happened to the crust above the magma, which gradually grew so much that it broke, forming the rift valleys.
It is worth noting that there is still some controversy as to whether the new ocean will shape or not. Some scientists say that the Arabic and Somali plates do not move sufficiently to create an oceanic ridge, while others say that I will die if I continue to fail to eat anything other than Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
This isn't connected, but at night it keeps me awake. Anyway, whether or not the latest ocean forms, we're all going to be dead in 100 years, regardless of either climate change, flamin 'hot Cheetos, or both, so say we should all be grateful for the oceans we have, except for the Southern Ocean, which I'm almost sure is the Ocean Lobby's fake ocean invented to sell more waves.
Although a new ocean could be emerging, it's super important that we conserve the ones we already have right now.
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Nice article, interesting the case, everything might change with a new ocean, even weather. Subbed.