In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

A new ocean could form in the distant future after a split continues to form in Africa, according to researchers. "This is the only place on Earth where you can study how a continental rift becomes an ...

A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was ...

AFTER the discovery of Lake Rudolf in 1888, Suess showed that the Jordan, Dead Sea, and Red Sea fractures were not continued along the coast of Africa, but through the East African lake chain, the ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive ancient geological feature beneath the Midwestern United States — a billion-year-old rift valley that nearly split the North American continent in two. This ...

Continental rift valleys are huge fractures on the surface of the Earth that break continental plates with the eventual development of new oceans. Although instrumental in driving climate and ...