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

Sometimes they pull apart at divergent boundaries, and sometimes they push together ... The Ring of Fire exists where the ...

In the strictest sense, there is only one ocean — the global ocean ... The Dabbahu Fissure, as it's now known, is evidence of a divergent boundary, where two tectonic plates are separating ...

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

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Their research has 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—is ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

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 – is breaking ...