The Amazon River, a unique place – Radio Relog, the Cuban station for that time and news

By: Roger Ricardo Lewis

Havana Cuba. – In the Amazon River, you can discover the uniqueness of the Amazonian ecosystem, specifically, it is strange to think that a third of all species on Earth live in this tributary, which means that it is the site with the greatest biodiversity in the world.

In addition, it combines different types of water, from fresh water to mixed in the mouth, of which there are amazing types.

Underwater falls. On the island of Mauritius, in Madagascar, there are so-called underwater waterfalls, a phenomenon that responds to optical illusions that occur due to the presence of sand and silt sediment infiltration, a type of sediment that causes the effect of a variety of colors and movements.

The largest cave. In Gunung National Park, in Malaysia, is the largest underground cavity in the world. They called it the Sarawak Chamber, which is 70 meters high, 700 meters long, and 400 meters wide.

Africa is divided into two parts

Yes, Africa is divided into two parts by a slow and irreversible geological process calculated in millions of years, which will give way to a new sea.

But this scientific prediction was not known to the residents of a village in southeastern Kenya, when on March 18, 2018, they watched with horror as the ground suddenly opened up under their feet, making a crack several kilometers long and 20 meters deep. .

This spectacular and one-off event has become yet another example of the thousands of kilometers of trench that in East Africa runs inexorably south through Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.

This process has been operating from the geological plate of Africa, in the area where the Somali and Nuba sub-plates are located, in the so-called Horn of Africa.

Africa will be smaller

Earth-cracking began in Afar, Ethiopia, about 30 million years ago, and has been on its way to Zimbabwe ever since, averaging 2.55 cm per year.

Geologists from the Dynamic Rift Research Group at Royal Holloway, London, estimate that the Afar Rift makes it possible to observe the different stages of Earth’s fracturing.

There, the outer layer, called the lithosphere, was reduced to an almost complete rupture, as confirmed by geologist Lucia Perez Diaz, a researcher at the aforementioned center, who declared that when it breaks, a new ocean will form, and in a while. Tens of millions of years, the sea floor will advance along the fault.

Perez Diaz emphasized that Africa will become smaller and there will be a large island in the Indian Ocean consisting of parts of Ethiopia and Somalia, including the Horn of Africa.

Africa Movements

The tectonic fate of the African continent is being studied, and scientists have been aided by tools such as GPS, which can measure rates of movement of a few millimeters per year.

The Earth’s crust is made up of dozens of large tectonic plates, which are irregularly shaped slabs of rock that move, slide, or break away from each other.

Research indicates that in the past 30 million years, the Arabian tectonic plate has moved away from the African plate, forming the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden between the two connected landmasses.

The new ocean will take between 5 and 10 million years, and the reason for the division of the earth indicates a column of extremely hot rocks rising from the mantle below East Africa, which could drive the continental rift in the region.