"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean. As a result of movement from the East ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

The tectonic clash is causing a rift which is reshaping the African continent The Afar Triangle, a geological depression where three tectonic plates, Nubian, Somali, and Arabian meet, lies at the ...

The world we live in is constantly changing - even the ground underneath our feet. Earth’s shell is made up of several large tectonic plates, which have been moving and splitting for billions of ...

This opening, a rift that runs through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, is being created by the very slow movement of one tectonic plate, the Somali plate, away from another, the larger Nubian plate.

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ecosystem of the region, as well as the way humans live. In the geologic ...

A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift (EAR) in Afar ... being separated by continuous forces of tectonic plates, with the process said to be similar to ...