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 is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...
Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...
Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...
As two of Earth's great tectonic plates slowly crash together, the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be wiped off the face of ...
A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...
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 ...
At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.
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 ...