Rhythmic pulses of molten rock are rising beneath eastern Africa, according to a new study.The pulsing plume of hot mantle beneath Ethiopia, driven by plate tectonics, is slowly pulling the region ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

The chemical striping suggests the plume is pulsing, like a heartbeat.” That is how Professor Tom Gernon of the University of ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Researchers in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift reported a deep, rhythmic mantle “pulse” that is slowly tearing Africa apart to form a new ocean basin.

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, much like a human heartbeat, is gradually tearing the continent apart. Their s ...

There are some weather phenomena that are more surprising than others, but without a doubt, the eruption of lava in ...

Scientists found that the speed at which continents split apart directly influences how molten rock flows deep beneath ...

A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...