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A Deep Engine Behind Surface Change The Afar region gives scientists a rare window into how continents break apart. Over millions of years, as the rifts grow, they stretch and thin the land like warm ...

Continents aren't torn apart without warning, and oceans certainly aren't created out of the blue. Instead, these changes are announced millions of years before they're actually achieved, by the ...

Scientists warn that a crack in Africa could create giant mountains in the future that could surpass the Himalayas.

Africa is slowly changing in front of our eyes, although we can’t see it directly. Scientists have discovered the continent is splitting in two parts, and ...

Africa is slowly tearing apart, a process that could lead to a massive land collision creating mountains taller than the Himalayas. This geological shift, driven by mantle convection, will reshape ...

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. (Derek Keir/University of Southampton/University of Florence) (CN) — Millions of years ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.