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

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

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

As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...

The continents, which are thus movable, are supposed in Carboniferous times to have formed a single mass, and to have split up by rift-valley formation and started floating apart in late ...

Malawi's most famous earthquake lake is Lake Chilwa. Located in the southeastern region, it is the second-largest lake in Malawi and a crucial wetland area. And, then there is Lake Chiuta, smaller but ...

Other plates move apart, creating new oceanic crust and rift valleys. Magma then rises from ... leading to the formation of a massive fissure. What usually takes centuries unfolded in mere days ...

The formation of a sixth ocean could bring significant ... while the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea could flood the East African Rift Valley, forming a new ocean. However, complete continental ...