The volcanic activity and tectonic splitting of the East African Rift Valley is probably driven by activity deep within the Earth, a new study reveals, starting where the core meets the mantle. The ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is the world’s largest continental rift, stretching from Jordan to Mozambique. For years, geologists have been puzzled as to why EARS displays some ...

An area of East Africa could be separated from the continent sooner than previously thought, with a 35-mile crack along the East African rift ... branches of this rift system go.

Douwe van Hinsbergen, the chair in global tectonics and paleogeography at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, told Newsweek: "The East African Rift has ... Earth's core produces convection ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

An active continental rift zone currently exists in what is called the East African Rift System, where what is known as the Somalian plate is pulling away from the rest of the continent ...

The East African Rift System, a significant fault line, is causing this division into the Nubian and Somalian plates. This geological evolution mirrors Earth's ancient transformations and will ...

A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift (EAR ... figuring out exactly where the branches of this rift system go. "The northern part was reasonably well ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...