The East African Rift may be drifting apart quicker than expected, one geologist warned. The rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across ...
In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift ... Then, in 2018, another crack appeared in Kenya along the rift. From our morning news ...
Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018 ... The splitting of Africa isn’t an isolated event; continents have drifted apart and re-merged at least three times throughout Earth’s history.
Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.
Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...