A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in the future. This tectonic activity, involving the Somali and Nubian Plates, ...

Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa indicates the existing oceans may one day spill into the growing rift, severing a small portion of the continent from the greater ...

The Maritime Continent is a term commonly used by meteorologists, climatologists, and oceanographers to describe the region between the Indian and Pacific Oceans including the archipelagos of ...

The Indian Plate could then collide with the Somali Plate, creating a new mountain range, and may lead to the break-up of the continent. Besides the ocean that is emerging in East Africa ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Hence the addition of a new ocean. BT continued: “The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ocean may for millions ...

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory ...

Earth may get its sixth ocean in future but it would change the geography as we know it. Scientists predict that Africa’s gradual continental split could eventually create Earth’s sixth ocean ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

Names associated with the ocean (or water in general) hold a special place in my heart. One of my friends who lives with his family out in California lives near the ocean, and all of them have names ...