A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation ... will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of ...

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 Afar sits at the crossroads of three tectonic plates — the Nubian ... The Afar region is home to the East African Rift Valley, a massive crack in the Earth’s surface that stretches through ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift (EAR) in Afar ... being separated by continuous forces of tectonic plates, with the process said to be similar to ...

as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in ...