The East African Rift System constitutes a prime example of continental rifting, where the African Plate splits into Nubian and Somali sub-plates. This process is marked by axial rift valleys, normal ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the most impressive geologic features on the planet—not to mention one of the most volcanically active and ...

This video investigates the viral claim that a new ocean is forming in Africa – and finds that the story is far more real ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

A long, low basin in eastern Africa has spent millions of years collecting some of the most important clues to human origins. Now it is offering another kind of evidence, this time from far below the ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water may flood it in a few million years ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Though East Africa used to be more of a savanna than a desert, it has dried out over the millennia. With less water in the lakes, especially Lake ...

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 ...

The East African Rift system represents a major zone of continental extension where the African Plate is slowly splitting into separate plates. Volcanism here is driven by upwelling mantle material ...

The deep geothermal potential of East Africa is a huge, under-exploited resource that has so far failed to attract investors from the oil and gas world. The East Africa Rift System (EARS), with its ...

It could have literally earth-shaking implications for the (very) long-term future of the continent.