Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

‘If rifting continues, new basaltic oceanic crust may form along the centre of the rift producing a new narrow ocean basin with its own mid-ocean ridge between the Nubian and Somalian plates.’ ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around ...

The African continent is undergoing a dramatic transformation as tectonic forces carve a path toward the formation of a new ocean. The East African Rift System, a vast network of faults stretching ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, much like a human heartbeat, is gradually tearing the continent apart. Their s ...

The split in Ethiopia, known as the East African Rift Valley, occurred in 2005, but the full development into a new ocean may not be complete for another 5 to 10 million years.

Johan Lissenberg, an igneous petrologist from Cardiff University on board the ship, told Science Magazine that these samples can provide direct evidence for how ocean crust differs in composition ...

Fortunately, he had a framework to guide him. Spreading ocean basins account for most of the new crust on Earth. Young, warm, buoyant oceanic crust rises, lifting up the water above it. So, if you ...

Some 25,000 herders fled the first major new “dike intrusion” to hit land since the 1970s, according to one paper. Scientists rushed to the rift, hoping to study a process that typically occurs ...

South of New Zealand in the Tasman Sea is a stretch of stormy ocean where the waves regularly swell 20 feet (6 meters) or more and the winds blow at 30 mph (48 km/h) on a good day. Deep below ...