Remarkably, it could one day lead to the formation of Earth's sixth ocean. At the heart of this phenomenon are tectonic plates—massive sections of the Earth's crust that move atop the semi-fluid ...

A new ocean basin has now been formed, and it gets wider as time goes on. Rift valleys are usually narrow and long, some measuring hundreds of kilometers in length.

A giant crack in the heart of the Great Rift Valley Since 2005, the Great Rift Valley region, at the junction of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, has been undergoing a dramatic transformation. A fissure ...

Africa could be split into two parts by the formation of a new ocean in the ... The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden will flood the Afar region and the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. *Africa’s tectonic activity is allegedly splitting the continent, potentially creating a new ocean in about 50 million years. This process echoes ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Researchers in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift reported a deep, rhythmic mantle “pulse” that is slowly tearing Africa apart to form a new ocean basin.

The study provides crucial insights into continental breakup and ocean formation, ... Similarly in 2018, a massive crack emerged in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, ...

During an expedition to British East Africa in 1892–93 Prof. Gregory confirmed Suess's conclusions, with some modifications as to the age and origin of the Great Rift Valley, the formation of ...