Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

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

This continent may be dividing in two, according to a startling finding on the map of Earth. Africa is expected to split but only within millions of years.

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

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 ...