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 ...

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.

The African plate is moving much more slowly, and therefore feeding less crust to the LLVP below. What does get forced down mixes more with the mantle during its long descent, at least partially ...