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

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there ...

Tectonic shifts could lead Africa to split into two continents, and although some argue that these images provid evidence, ...

Africa is slowly drifting apart along the East African Rift System, and researchers suspect this tectonic movement would ...

This process is occurring along the East African Rift System (EARS), a tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is being pulled apart. The East African Rift is causing the continent to ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from the mainland.

Where continents rift apart ... the dynamic processes that occur during plate rifting. Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that ...

This rift, a tectonic fault line, marks where the Somalian and Nubian plates are slowly moving apart, setting the stage for Africa’s eventual split. Future Ocean to Form Once the continental ...

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

such as the Campi Flegrei volcano in Italy - where the Eurasian plate and the African Atlantic plate are moving towards each other along the Mediterranean sea.