The East Africa Rift is slowly splitting apart and is expected to eventually fill with water, forming a brand new ocean. U.S. ... The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago.

Africa's Great Rift is one of the few places on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity, with the Somali and Nubian plates moving apart. This process is how the Atlantic Ocean ...

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several million years, experts say. But the driving force behind the ...

The East African Rift System, ... “We’ve reduced the timeframe to about 1 million years, possibly even half that,” says Cynthia Ebinger, a geoscientist at Tulane University.

In East Africa, geothermal energy is big business, and that’s all thanks to the East African Rift System (EARS). One of the largest rift systems on Earth—stretching 4,000 miles from Ethiopia ...

The process stems from the East African Rift System (EARS), which is a 2,000-mile-long rift that began forming at least 22 million years ago and runs through the region where Africa’s Great ...

Known as the East African Rift system, the crack extends over 3,500 kilometres ... It started forming roughly 25 million years ago, but its effects are ongoing. Related articles.

The East African Rift System stretches more than 2,000 miles from the Red Sea in the north down to Mozambique in the south. It’s the largest active continental rift on Earth, where the tectonic ...