Of these volcanoes, over 90 lie on the East African Rift Valley – the seam along which Africa is splitting ... Volcanic rocks that erupt when Earth's tectonic plates spread apart provide a window into ...

The Afar region is home to The East African Rift Valley is a huge fault in the earth’s crust that stretches across Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, a 55-kilometer-long crack opened in the Ethiopian desert ...

We used these samples to investigate the characteristics of the mantle beneath this rifting, when tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. These samples are from Holocene eruptions (rocks ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years - and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

Over millions of years, this process has opened the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and is now slowly prising apart the East African Rift that cuts through Ethiopia, Kenya, and down to Mozambique.

She highlighted Africa's 180,000 terawatt-hours of annual offshore wind capacity, 340 gigawatts of hydropower potential, rich geothermal resources in the East African Rift Valley, and more than 50 ...

Most of the hotspots were around Lake Victoria and other lakes in the East African Rift Valley, which share a similar topography to Lake Maracaibo.

The fault helps form the boundary between the African tectonic plate to the west and the Arabian one to the east. NASA notes that the Dead Sea lies in the Great Rift Valley, which is currently ripping ...

Rich culture, celebrations, and a dose of celebratory Kamba folk songs ruled the third day of Rift Valley Regional Secondary Schools Music Festivals at Nakuru Boys High School on Friday.