The Somalian tectonic plate is gradually pulling away from ... flooding the Afar region and the East African Rift Valley with ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American, African ... giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged ...

This process is occurring along the East African Rift System (EARS), a tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is being pulled apart. The East African Rift is causing the continent to ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the African plate ...

The East African Rift ... cobra diverging from its African counterpart due to geographic isolation. Ocean’s Cradle As the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea flood the Rift Valley, an ocean will form ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...