Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

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.

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

Recent studies reveal that the region’s tectonic plates are separating at an accelerated ... driving the formation of a massive rift in East Africa. In the Ethiopian desert, this rift spans ...

But due to Earth’s soft centre and the tectonic plates, the contents are still moving today – in fact, it is thought that Africa will split in two in the future. However when we say “future ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

This rift, a tectonic fault line, marks where the Somalian and Nubian plates are slowly moving apart, setting the stage for Africa’s eventual split. Future Ocean to Form Once the continental ...

These tracks are around 140 million years old, from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African and South ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Africa, South America ... The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a ...