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 ...

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

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Stock image of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago. ... Do you have a question about plate tectonics? Let us know via [email protected].

For the past decade, water in Kenya’s Rift Valley has been rising. Scientists say this is due to climate change, wrong use of land, and a movement of tectonic plates inside the earth’s surface.

The Virunga chain is part of the East African Rift Valley system, ... Plate Tectonics. The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

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

The term ‘rift valley’ is used to describe spots where tectonic plates are gradually moving further apart. This movement leaves a gulley in the gap left behind, sometimes forming deep cracks .

The tectonic plates of Africa and Arabia collide in the desert and have been gradually separating for about 30 million years. ... "The Eastern arm of the Rift Valley is fairly active, ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa .

The rift was identified as the edge of three tectonic plates that have already been drifting apart for some time: the African Nubian, African Somali, and Arabian. What the science says ...