Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

For decades, geologists have been closely monitoring developments in the East African Rift (EAR) system - a fissure, which stretches 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide along the deserts of ...

Thus began the East African Rift ... like the ancient rift that split South America apart from Africa, eventually giving rise to the Atlantic Ocean. As the rift increases, the Red Sea and the Gulf of ...

The African ... a rift valley formed of depressions (or grabens) and local highs (or horst), delimited between fractures or faults. Scientists have connected the process to a gigantic plume of ...

Nestled in western Kenya's highlands, 2,200 meters above sea level, Eldoret — a six-hour drive from Nairobi that crosses both the equator and the East African Rift Valley — wears its moniker ...

The Afar region is home to the East African Rift Valley, a massive crack in the Earth’s surface that stretches through Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, a 35-mile-long fissure opened in the Ethiopian ...

Ken MacDonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told MailOnline: “What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East ...

The East African Rift, a colossal crack that stretches thousands of kilometers ... Scientists emphasize that this process is similar to what occurred during the formation of the Atlantic Ocean ...