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

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 crack is found on the African, Arabian and Somali tectonic plate boundaries. For the past 30 million years, the Arabian plate has been slowly moving away from the African continent.

Before Plate Tectonics arrived and different collisions ... Future Continental Breakup: If rifting continues, the Horn of Africa may eventually separate from the main African continent, forming ...

As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...