Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart ... dark side': Chang’e-6 finds eerily untouched lunar soil in deep space '98 feet of truth': 5,700 years of weather decoded ...

The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia, up to 10 meters deep—marking the early stages of an ocean basin. The East African Rift mimics the ...

At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart.

The expedition also found that a continuous mountain-like ridge runs through the Atlantic to the southwest of Africa ... a deep canyon. In some places the canyon, called the Great Global Rift ...

and the discovery of a deep-Earth water reservoir questions traditional theories about where, and how much, of the planet’s water resides. In the case of the East African Rift, scientists will have a ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from the mainland.