Image depicting Earth's tectonic plates. The East Africa Rift System may lead the African plate to be split in two. iStock. Previously, it was thought the rotation direction was related to mantle ...

Geologists forecast that the East African Rift in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, among other African countries, will split open, forming a new ocean. Stock image showing the world's tectonic plates.

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Plate tectonics is a good example of this. ... The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, ...

The rift valley is so big that it is slowly splitting Africa in two. The larger Nubian tectonic plate encompasses most of the continent, whereas the smaller Somali plate carries the Horn of Africa ...

Part of the East African Rift Valley, the spot where humans first evolved, is much older than previously thought, changing ideas on what the climate of the area was thought to be like in the past.

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics and a changing climate have ... the ephemeral deep-freshwater lakes appeared and disappeared along the whole length of the East Africa Rift valley, ...

The two tectonic plates that are moving from one another in the East African Rift are the Nubian Plate (a larger plate that contains most of Africa) and the Somalian Plate.

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.