Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

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

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will eventually break apart altogether - with one US academic now theorising this could ...

It is a fascinating geologic region where the African, Indian, and Arabian plates meet and marks the northward end of the Rift Valley. The spreading in the region not only causes volcanic activity ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

The birth of a new ocean is slowly emerging in the African ... rift that split South America apart from Africa, eventually giving rise to the Atlantic Ocean. As the rift increases, the Red Sea and the ...

The East African Rift, extending from the Red Sea to Mozambique, signifies a gradual continental separation, accompanied by seismic and volcanic activity ... the Rift Valley and its characteristics.

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

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

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Olorgesailie and Mount ...

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