Africa will divide in two, creating a new ocean in real time. Scientists say a sixth ocean is forming as East Africa splits ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two separate landmasses. While this ...

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.

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling ... Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic ...

Discovery of the East African Rift System (EARS) The East African Rift System (EARS) was initially identified in 2005, with its origins dating back around 22 million years, according to earth.com.

The Great Rift Valley channels a huge diversity of waterways - rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caustic springs and coral seas - from Egypt to Mozambique. Show more Visible from space, Africa's Great ...

Series exploring east Africa's Great Rift Valley. On the vast savannahs ... forcing one group of primates to develop a social system that paved the way for the evolution of mankind.

This makes it unlikely that the Afar depression was produced by tensional separation during the formation of the Red Sea Rift.