Scientists' discovery of giant mantle structures reveals deep Earth mysteries beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The post ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

The fault system linking the European and African plates extends over a length of 300 kilometers / ICM-CSIC. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there ...

They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates move apart forming new crust; and convergent ...