Is Africa splitting and creating a new ocean and two new continents? This is what some scientists believe will happen in the future. According to the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is the world’s largest continental rift, stretching from Jordan to Mozambique. For years, geologists have been puzzled as to why EARS displays some deformations ...

A new ocean could soon be forming beneath us. Earth’s surface is a dynamic and ever-changing mosaic of tectonic plates, ...

The Earth's tectonic plates have always slowly shifted over billions of years of our planet's history, carving out seas and pressing mountain ranges into existence. One change that is expected in the ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the most impressive geologic features on the planet—not to mention one of the most volcanically active and geothermally rich. Understanding what drives ...

A new ocean could form in the distant future after a split continues to form in Africa, according to researchers. "This is the only place on Earth where you can study how a continental rift becomes an ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

Last May, a US magazine reported on a geological change taking place in Africa that could be very slowly splitting the ...

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations, as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. Computer ...

The East African Rift Valley in Kenya is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 30 crew member on the International Space Station. This photograph highlights classical geological ...