A monumental geological event is underway in East Africa. Deep within the Earth ... Uganda might eventually gain access to the ocean, opening new pathways for commerce and development.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull ... being pushed apart in part by magma rising up from deep in the Earth, creating a measurable ...

She notes that a major seismic event, such as an earthquake, could further speed up the process ... The formation of a new ocean could dramatically alter Africa’s geography.

If the process continues, the Horn of Africa could break away and become its own island, with a brand-new ocean forming in between. How slow is “slow”? About 0.3 inches per year in some places ...

Future Ocean to Form Once the continental split completes, a new ocean will form in ... affirms that these fossils back up the theory of tectonic drift. Africa’s transformation is happening ...

Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

Getty The Earth may eventually have a new ocean. Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea away from the rest ...

A dramatic transformation is unfolding in Africa as ... stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia, up to 10 meters ...

Scientists have discovered giant mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean around 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, a country in west Africa ... put a new date on the opening of ...