Scientists' analysis of volcanic gases from Kenya have provided possible evidence of worrying activity beneath East Africa ...

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several million years, experts say. But the driving force behind the ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, largely submerged for over 100 million years.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's ... one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa — lie at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its outer core, some 1,900 miles (3,000 ...

Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in some places. Volcanic and geologic evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa indicates ...

Europe and Asia share a huge land expanse, with the Ural Mountains often cited as an arbitrary “boundary ... a small and largely underwater continent in the Southern Hemisphere (if you ...

In each illustration, the continent is divided into its upper crust, lower crust and continental lithosphere layers plus a relatively unstable thermal boundary layer. Beneath the continent is the ...

A tectonic boundary now divides Zealandia into northern and southern sections, tracing along the Pacific and Australian plates. Although the idea of an underwater continent first surfaced decades ...