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

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

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

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The Earth sure knows how to keep things moving. At their edges, tectonic plates interact and naturally collide, driven by the Earth’s internal geological forces. These movements are the powerhouse ...

While doctors use ultrasound to visualize organs without opening the body, geophysicists analyze seismic waves to map the ... is divided into several tectonic plates that float and move slowly on the ...

Geophysicists have found sunken worlds in the Earth’s mantle — the planet’s bulky middle layer — that, according to both earlier imaging and understanding of plate tectonics ... Instead of clarifying ...