This isn’t just another crack in the earth. It has the power to change global maps, reshape political borders, and give rise to Earth’s sixth ocean.What may seem like a localized rift is, in ...

Researchers have spotted interesting changes in the South Atlantic Anomaly, which is a region of Earth’s magnetic field that has a large dent. The area of weak magnetism appears to be splitting ...

The Earth might be getting a new ocean, though you’ll have to wait a long time to see it. Due to tectonic plate movement, part of eastern Africa is slowly splitting apart, ...

One of Earth's Continents Is Splitting Apart and May Create a Whole New Ocean. The phenomenon has happened before and is due to an active continental rift zone . By. Toria Sheffield.

A peer-reviewed study detailing the split was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. It said that the plates separate a few millimetres per year.

CONTINENTAL DRIFT Africa is being split apart by intense ‘superplume’ of hot rock 1,800 miles below Earth’s surface, experts warn ...

Holly is a graduate medical biochemist with an enthusiasm for making science interesting, fun and accessible. Africa is slowly splitting in two. Like anything in geology, it’s an extremely long ...