On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

Yet this is one tricky puzzle to put together as the pieces made of the planet’s crust and squidgy-ish mantle, called tectonic plates ... zone the East African Rift Valley (EAR), part of ...

Silfra Fissure in Iceland, located in Þingvellir National Park, offers a unique opportunity to swim or snorkel between the ...

The movement of tectonic plates is a foundational geological process ... while the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea could flood the East African Rift Valley, forming a new ocean.