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 Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Plate tectonics is a good example of this. ... The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, ...

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.

The rift is the area where the Somalian and Nubian tectonic plates ... features in the image are the linear fault lines that run parallel to each other along the floor of the tectonic rift valley.

Plate tectonics is a good example of this. ... The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, ...

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].

A deep, wide gash has slashed across the Great Rift Valley floor in a geologically hot part of Kenya. Some wonder if East Africa will eventually separate from the continent.

It looks like something from a fantasy film: a 15-metre-wide abyss, tearing the earth in two. The terrifying sight emerged in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley after torrential rain and tremors.

The explanations range from siltation and increased rainfall to the shifting of tectonic plates deep in the earth’s crust. “In around 1995, lake levels within the Rift Valley were at their ...