AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...
Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...
The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline ... a large elongated fissure or fracture (as seen on the diagram above) or a tiny ...
New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...
On volcanoes, a fissure is an elongated fracture or crack at the surface from which lava erupts. Fissure eruptions typically dwindle to a central vent after a period of hours or days. Occasionally ...
Hundreds of visitors who traveled to watch a once-in-800-year volcano eruption near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik had to evacuate the area after steam and lava started spurting from a new fissure.