Geologists indicate that the tectonic plates in Africa ... Rift is prominent on physical maps of the continent. Its presence manifests in the Great African Rift Valley, which stretches for ...

This area is part of the Great Rift Valley, where Africa is slowly pushed and pulled apart by uprising material in earth's mantle. Eventually, the rift will become deep enough to host a new ocean ...

Experts monitoring the gap say the deepening crack will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as water emerges, effectively reshaping the world map ... Africa's Great Rift is one ...

Africa’s Great Rift Valley stretches across 3,500 miles of territory from the shores of Eritrea to the red soil of Mozambique, and is recognized by scientists as the birthplace of humankind.

Continental rifting requires the existence of extensional forces great enough ... However, in East Africa most of this seismicity is spread over a wide zone across the rift valley and is of ...

Following heavy rains in Kenya, a giant crack appeared in the ground in the Suswa region late last month that caused part of a highway to collapse near the capital city of Nairobi, as the BBC ...

The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley , a natural property of outstanding beauty, comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow lakes (Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita) in the ...

In the heart of Africa’s Great Rift Valley lies Katavi, a little-known National Park spanning more than three thousand square miles of western Tanzania. Here, Nature’s filmmakers capture a ...

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 ...