An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Such changes, while slow on a human timescale, mark the early stages of a significant geological event: the birth of a new ocean basin. Cynthia Ebinger, a geoscientist from Tulane University ...

When rifting is successful, the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully ...

This rare opportunity allows scientists to witness the birth of a new ocean basin, a process that once shaped the Atlantic ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling magma. Eventually, a new ocean basin forms. In this web focus we present opinion pieces, along with research and overview articles ...

For the past two years, human-caused warming has driven the planet’s temperature past the limit set by the Paris Agreement, and if the new projections ... s largest ocean basins—the Pacific ...