A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

The transition to plate tectonics started with the help of lubricating sediments, scraped by glaciers from the slopes of Earth's first continents, according to new research. Earth's outer layer is ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

From the earliest hints of continental crust to the modern dance of tectonic plates, scientists are piecing together Earth's ...

An international team led by researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) has identified a key ...

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Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...