This process, driven by movements along the East African Rift System, is separating Africa into two parts: the Nubian and Somalian plates. According to researchers, Africa might eventually break ...

Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the African plate ...

Where continents rift apart ... the dynamic processes that occur during plate rifting. Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart, paving the way for a new ocean and reshaping Earth's geography in real-time. A study by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology reveals ...

This expedition was the first use of closely spaced echo sounders to map ... The rift outlined chunks of the earth's crust, which were named tectonic (from a Greek word for "carpenter") plates.