Image depicting Earth's tectonic plates. The East Africa Rift System may lead the ... "Looking at geological maps of the system, we noted the peculiar geometry of the two curved, overlapping ...

Geologists have made the surprising discovery that large portions of Africa’s tectonic plate have disappeared, with one likely cause. An international team of scientists led by the Dublin ...

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates.

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

Inspired by this work, we have built the first plate tectonic ... create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before Massive magma eruptions may have ripped Africa and ...

It says that "as part of Eastern Africa experience a shift in Tectonic plates towards the West", a gap will form between two parts of the continent, and flood with water. These "tetron plates", it ...

Scientists can now look further back in geological time than ever before and have created the first tectonic map which spans from ... million years ago lie in Africa, India, Arabia, South America ...

The Somali tectonic plate in eastern Africa is “also stretching away from the Nubian plate, peeling apart along the East African Rift Valley, which extends through Ethiopia and Kenya”.

Africa is slowly splitting in two ... all of the continents were combined into one known as Pangaea, but the action of tectonic plates pulled it apart, creating drifting continents with edges ...