A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on south Florida beaches over the weekend, but so ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

‘If rifting continues, new basaltic oceanic crust may form along the ... Others have suggested that the lithosphere, a layer of the Earth’s mantle that ‘floats’ on the more fluid-like ...

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The earth’s prevailing winds were previously thought to slow down ocean weather patterns like eddies and strain, but new research shows that prevailing winds can energize ocean weather patterns ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents ...

The heavier elements in oceanic crust are part of the basaltic recipe found ... "The sense of shear is consistent with west‐ to southwestward removal of lithosphere," the researchers write in their ...