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 ...

The East African Rift is splitting the continent, forming a new ocean and reshaping Earth’s geography, ecosystems, and ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling ... Earth is turning itself inside out through the process of plate tectonics. Advances in technology are helping to reveal the ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where sedimentary rocks ... sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift valley will be ...

1). Thus, we do not know how strain is being accommodated nor the linkage between these two rift basins with different tectonic histories and orientations. Figure 1: (a) Structural map of the East ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there ...

The rift sits as a constant reminder of the power of the Earth and its tectonic plates. The creation of a new ocean may seem a long time away, but its impacts will leave a lasting mark on the ...

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

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 ...