Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

A giant crack in the heart of the Great Rift Valley Since 2005, the Great Rift Valley region, at the junction of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, has been undergoing a dramatic transformation. A fissure ...

The East African Rift system is an example of where this is currently happening. The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, ...

Remarkably, it could one day lead to the formation of Earth's sixth ocean. At the heart of this phenomenon are tectonic plates—massive sections of the Earth's crust that move atop the semi-fluid ...

The formation and evolution of the African Rift Valley are shaded in mystery, but geoscientists at Penn State are mapping the history of the Rift through space and time by analyzing the chemistry ...

The rift is the area where the Somalian and Nubian tectonic plates are pulling away from the Arabian plate, a process that began tens of millions of years ago and in tens of millions years more ...

As tectonic plates are pulled apart at such rift zones, they stretch out and thin until they break, forming a new ocean basin over the course of millions of years.

The rift is the area where the Somalian and Nubian tectonic plates are pulling away from the Arabian plate, a process that began tens of millions of years ago and in tens of millions years more ...

The 3,700-mile-long Great Rift Valley, which runs through Kenya, formed as a result of tectonic plates drifting apart, and it may eventually flood to separate Africa from a new continent.

Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University have published new details about the evolution of the East African Rift (EAR) Valley, one of the world's largest continental ...

It appears in the East African Rift Valley that runs from the Horn of Africa, which contains countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, all the way to to Mozambique.

The East African Rift system is an example of where this is currently happening. The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, ...