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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have confirmed that Africa is beginning to split into two separate continents due to tectonic activity along ... National Park Service action Map: Cargo ship with 3,000 vehicles ...

The map of Earth, long thought settled ... by carefully analyzing tectonic movements across Africa, Phethean and his colleagues have challenged this theory and put forward a radical new idea.

The map is the first to show the whereabouts of almost 100 massive remnants of what were once tectonic plates ... the Tethys Ocean that once separated Africa and Europe. Now, they are moving ...

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 ...

Last Sunday, May 24, marked the 109th birthday of geologist Harry Hammond Hess, who discovered the primary mechanism of plate tectonics ... When the first European map of America was published ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa.

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics ... saw the map, he spotted something surprising: The distribution of ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...