A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

The African Plate is splitting into two independent tectonic plates - the Nubian and Somali - as a result of a tremendous rising of hot, partially molten rock known as the African Superplume.

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

In the Afar region of Ethiopia, the ground beneath our feet is stretching and tearing at a rate of 16 millimeters per year ...

Stock image showing the world's tectonic plates. Geologists forecast that the East African Rift in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, among other African countries, will split open, forming a new ocean.

Africa will become two continents with a new ocean. ... In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story.

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 ...