South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

Just when you thought you had seen or heard it all, and then bam! Africa is splitting into two continents. The splitting of Africa will create a new ocean, the sixth one. Unfortunately, we will not ...

If the two tectonic plates continue to shift and the EAR system widens further, eventually a large basin will form. Due to the close proximity of the Indian Ocean, it’s likely that the basin ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two ... Future Ocean to Form Once the ...