Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Ocean’s Cradle As the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea flood the Rift Valley, an ocean will form, dramatically altering ecosystems, economies, and livelihoods in the region. Though spanning millions of ...

while the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea could flood the East African Rift Valley, forming a new ocean. However, complete continental separation is not expected for another 5 to 10 million years.

As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...