Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

The rift that split in 2005 is part of the much larger East Africa Rift System (EARS), a network of rifts and valleys that first appeared about 25 million years ago as the first apes were evolving in ...

If rifting continues, 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 ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

In the 1950s, geologist Marie Tharp turned depth measurements into detailed maps of the ocean floor. It led to her discovery of the Mid-Atlantic rift.

Computer modelling past ocean conditions can help predict the location and age of carbon-rich mud. Ocean mud locks up much of the planet’s carbon – we’re digging deep to map these ancient stores ...

We examined three mud‐rich areas in the shallow north-west European shelf seas: the Fladen Ground, Celtic Deep and western Irish Sea mud belts. Using computer models of ocean tides over the past ...