AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...
The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...
Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...
These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to ...
By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...
While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...
Precambrian tectonics of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia), Isua greenstone belt (Greenland), and Barberton greenstone belt (South Africa); tectonic evolution of the Chilean ...