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.

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 ...

This expedition was the first use of closely spaced echo sounders to map deep sea topography and ... through the Atlantic to the southwest of Africa. Unfortunately it was not realized at the ...

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 ocean is being created by the tectonic plates of Africa and Arabia being torn apart ... this process can be witnessed first hand. The rift is a narrow crack under the water which at some ...

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 ...