A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

But Gregory recognized also similarities between the geology of the Red Sea and the African Rift Valley and proposed that these landscapes are connected. The dimensions of this feature, splitting ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

In the remote wilderness of northeastern Utah, a strange and unsettling phenomenon is quietly unfolding. A massive earth ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Past research has pointed to magma as a key driver in rifting events. But the new findings highlight that, “We have to be a bit more nuanced and acknowledge that rift processes do not have to operate ...

Geologists have a new explanation for the formation of the Midcontinent Rift, an ancient 2,000-mile-long underground crack that starts in Lake Superior and runs south. The rift is a geological ...

Four NMSU geology professors with overlapping interests in the geology and tectonic history of the southern Rio Grande rift have joined forces to create the institute, which is dedicated to ...

Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years ...

According to the Geology study, Phethean and his team analyzed a similar structure in Central Afar—a relatively young rift system in eastern Africa—to better understand the early phases of how ...

As he and co-authors write in their 2021 paper in Geology, "In concert, the data suggest that while some rifts may be magmatically controlled, not all rift zones require the presence of a deep ...