AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

The new ocean forming in East Africa serves as a powerful reminder of Earth’s ever-changing nature. As research progresses, this extraordinary event continues to reveal the complexities of our ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

This rift, a tectonic fault line, marks where the Somalian and Nubian plates are slowly moving apart, setting the stage for Africa’s eventual split. Future Ocean to Form Once the continental ...

Africa's tectonic plates have collided to form large mountains and pulled apart ... "What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African ...

A dramatic transformation is unfolding in Africa as tectonic ... sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...

Beneath the surface of the Earth lie several tectonic plates - large slabs of rock that move slowly over time - at a rate similar to the growth of fingernails. Some of these plates move towards ...