Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

The line where ocean meets air has always looked fragile, a knife-edge boundary stretched over crushing depths and shifting ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Planet Earth is constantly evolving. For billions of years, continents have shifted, smashed into others, reformed, and broken apart to form new tectonic plate arrangements. This phenomenon is ...

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We’re all reminded from time to time that Earth’s tectonic plates are in constant flux. There was recent news, for example, that the odds of a San Andreas quake occurring between the Pacific and North ...

A new ocean could form in the distant future after a split continues to form in Africa, according to researchers. "This is the only place on Earth where you can study how a continental rift becomes an ...