As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...

Researchers in Nebraska are exploring the Midcontinent Rift's potential to produce renewable, carbon-free hydrogen, possibly ...

Commenting on the geological development, Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist and a professor based at the University of ...

Harry Hess became a professor of geology at Princeton in 1932 ... With the discovery in 1953 of the Great Global Rift, a volcanic valley running along the midocean ridges, Hess looked back ...

Eliud Njoroge and his wife were inside their house in Kenya’s Rift Valley when a crack appeared in the cement floor and started spreading. As they raced out they already knew it was more than a ...

Harry Hess became a professor of geology at Princeton in 1932 ... With the discovery in 1953 of the Great Global Rift, a volcanic valley running along the midocean ridges, Hess looked back ...