The pulsing plume of hot mantle beneath Ethiopia, driven by plate tectonics, is slowly pulling the region apart and forming a new ocean near the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, researchers reported ...

Tendaho's magnetic bands, which measure 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide, are embedded in continental crust, not oceanic crust. And unlike magnetic stripes on the ocean floor, Tendaho's formed through ...

A team studying the crust and mantle beneath the Afar region of the African country Ethiopia says that when tectonic plates move away from each other, the land stretches and becomes thinner. If ...