It’s not just a fascinating natural wonder; it’s set to change Africa and the world ... lead to new oceans forming. This is kind of how the Atlantic Ocean came into being about 200 million ...

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

It keeps going. "Eventually, Eastern Africa is going to become its new continent, separated from the rest of Africa by a new ocean." Joe is a journalist for UNILAD, with a particular enjoyment for ...

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 ...

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

In summary, the geological processes leading to Africa’s gradual split and the eventual formation of a new ocean are well-documented, but these transformations will unfold over an extended ...

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

According to Metro, this certain tectonic movement could potentially lead to the formation of the Sixth Ocean which would end up separating Somalia ... The African Superplume which is a swollen slab ...

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 ...

At the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, glaciers flow into the Southern Ocean, forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They're also shrinking.