An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953 ... In some places the canyon, called the Great Global Rift, came very close to land. The rift appeared to be breaks in the earth's crust, but ...

They showed the vast underwater landscapes of the Atlantic Ocean, complete with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central rift.

new basaltic oceanic crust may form along the centre of the rift producing a new narrow ocean basin with its own mid-ocean ridge between the Nubian and Somalian plates.’ Researchers have long ...

In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...

A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world. On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where ...

The rift valley may fill with fresh water and become a lake ... and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully-developed mid ocean ridge is the site of hot new ocean floor, ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...