The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

The East African Rift Valley sits between the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Within it lie a series of freshwater and alkaline lakes organised like a string of pearls. The Kenyan lakes in ...

You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking ...

Scientists say Africa is gradually breaking apart along the East African Rift. The process is slow, but it could one day ...

It'll take tens of millions of years, but Africa may eventually split into two parts. While geologists have known about this possibility for a while, it became news recently when a large crack, ...

landscape showing the east africa rift valley panorama from Ethiopia A giant plume of super-heated rock rising up from near Earth's core could help explain mysterious distortions linked with a giant ...

Across East Africa, shifting tectonic plates, towering volcanoes and vast lakes are transforming the landscape in real time.

African rift tectonics and sedimentation : an introduction / H.G. Reading -- Geomorphology of the African Rift System / A.T. Grove -- Geophysical controls on sedimentation within the African rift ...

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...