Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Geological Shift in East Africa Could Reshape World Map. Africa. DC Web Desk. 16 May 2025 4:48 PM IST. The East African Rift, ... forming new coastlines and altering northeast Africa's climate and ...

Image depicting Earth's tectonic plates. The East Africa Rift System may lead the African plate to be split in two. iStock. Previously, it was thought the rotation direction was related to mantle ...

The African continent is undergoing a dramatic transformation as tectonic forces carve a path toward the formation of a new ocean. The East African Rift System, a vast network of faults stretching ...

Rifts exhibit a very distinctive topography, characterised by a series of fault-bounded depressions surrounded by higher terrain. In the East African system, a series of aligned rift valleys ...

Africa's Great Rift is one of the few places on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity, with the Somali and Nubian plates moving apart. This process is how the Atlantic Ocean ...

As a postdoctoral researcher, Stamps began observing the East African Rift System's unusual, rift-parallel deformation using data from GPS stations that measured signals from more than 30 ...

A view of the East African Rift in Ethiopia and Eritrea, taken by the Terra MODIS imager on November 8, 2019. NASA. The modern geography of Earth is created by the plate tectonic engine that runs in ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Africa's Rift Valley formation Credit: NASA/JPL/NIMASRTM. Lire en français. The rift system in East Africa is a key factor in increasing aridity and long dry periods in the region, a new study ...