In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

The Red Sea is one of the youngest oceans in the world ... rare places where this process can be witnessed first hand. The rift is a narrow crack under the water which at some points is no more ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

resulting in a huge rift valley. This rift would then open the region to being flooded by the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, creating a new ocean. Geologists say the amount of time within which this ...

Ocean’s Cradle As the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea flood the Rift Valley, an ocean will form, dramatically altering ecosystems, economies, and livelihoods in the region. Though spanning millions of ...

The East African Rift, extending from the Red Sea to Mozambique ... remote sensing techniques to observe and analyze the Rift Valley and its characteristics. Image: Google Earth/The Conversation ...

mainly based around the Great Rift Valley - a fracture in the earth's surfaces that runs 3,500 kilometres from the Red Sea to Mozambique. The non-acidic nature of the Rift Valley soil and sediment ...