"It marked the start of a long process in which the African plate is splitting into two tectonic plates: the Somali plate and the Nubian plate," said Unilad. Then, in 2018, another crack appeared ...

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 ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

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 ...

This rift, a tectonic fault line, marks where the Somalian and Nubian plates are slowly moving apart, setting the stage for Africa’s eventual split. Future Ocean to Form Once the continental ...

Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...

A dramatic transformation is unfolding in Africa as tectonic forces split the continent ... The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...

Africa, South America ... The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a ...

along with research and overview articles that explore the dynamic processes that occur during plate rifting. Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid ...