“This is the only place on Earth where you can study how continental rift becomes an oceanic rift,” Christopher Moore, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds, who uses satellite radar to ...

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in th ...

Alex Biston takes an offroad tour in Palm Desert to the San Andreas Fault, a continental rift that has caused many earthquakes in California. Google and Apple return TikTok to their mobile app ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling magma. Eventually, a new ocean basin forms. In this web focus we present opinion pieces, along with research and overview articles ...

Future Continental Breakup: If rifting continues, the Horn of Africa may eventually separate from the main African continent, forming a new ocean basin. Prabhat Mishra is an accomplished content ...

The second and third projects use 2D nested models, which allow for dynamic evolution of the continental margin scale system while providing high resolution visualization of salt basins, to study the ...

The recoverable shale oil reserves in China, one of the world's major crude oil consumers, ranks third globally. Data from China's National Energy Administration shows that the country's crude oil ...