Archive for March 4th, 2014

How Earth might have looked: How a failed Saharan Atlantic Ocean rift zone sculped Africa’s margin

Break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana about 130 Million years ago could have lead to a completely different shape of the African and South American continent with an ocean south of today’s Sahara desert, as geoscientists from the University of Sydney and the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have shown through the use of sophisticated […]