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

The result is a rift valley formed of depressions ... The gradual shift of tectonic plates shows a world in constant flux. While that division is still millions of years away in East Africa, the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Similarly, a recent geological process is causing the African continent to split into two. This rift, identified approximately ... the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a process that has ...

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 ...