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

A NEW ocean is forming beneath Ethiopia as a “heartbeat”-like pulse deep below the Earth’s surface splits the African ...

Learn more about the pounding plume of molten rock that’s beneath Ethiopia, forcing its three tectonic plates to separate.

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

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

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Scientists identified a heartbeat-like rhythmic pulse trapped within the Earth — and say it has profound implications for a ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

Research led by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic surges of molten mantle ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, ...

A slow, rhythmic pulse of hot rock has been found beneath Africa’s fault lines in Ethiopia. Over millions of years, it could ...