Beneath the sun-scorched lowlands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, the ground is quietly coming apart. New seismic data from the Turkana Rift Zone reveal that the Earth’s crust has thinned to ...

Africa is splitting in two. Scientists just found the crust beneath Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than anyone knew, and a new ...

A new rift forming beneath Zambia could eventually split the African continent apart, a new analysis of geothermal springs indicates. The Kafue Rift is part of a 2,500km-long zone running from ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs An overhead view of the ...

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 deformations ...

Scientists predict Africa’s gradual split will eventually form a new ocean, creating separate landmasses. This tectonic shift ...

Tulane University researchers, collaborating with an international team of scientists, have discovered why some parts of Earth's crust remain strong while others give way, overturning long-held ...

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. In ...

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations, as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. Computer ...