While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km ... by surface manifestations along the rift valley in the form of volcanism and seismic activity. Rifts are the initial stage of a continental ...

The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift Valley, a part of the world ... The site is too old for carbon dating, and the ancient volcanic ash that has preserved the artifacts ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

‘There’s slippage and faults creating earthquake activity, along with visible signs of active volcanoes.’ The East African Rift ... along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...