In 5 to 10 million years, this will create a new ocean and reshape the geography and trade routes of Eastern Africa, ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to ... plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's ... one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa — lie at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its outer core, some 1,900 miles (3,000 ...

New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent boundaries (where sea-floor spreading occurs), increasing Earth's surface. But the Earth isn't getting any bigger. What happens ...

The ocean rises over the edges of the continent, creating the passive margins. They are called passive because they are not near a plate boundary, and there is very little geologic activity there - no ...

Mr. Joannes Eidesgaard, the Prime Minister of the Faroes, signed an agreement on the establishment of boundaries for the continental shelf area beyond 200 nautical miles north of the Faroes.