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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) have mapped the geology of the Mona Rift and made some astonishing discoveries.

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 ...

The incomparable scenery and geology of the Colorado Plateau in northwestern New Mexico and the Rio Grande Rift of central New Mexico tell the story of 1.8 billion years of geologic history involving ...

The cracks are "associated with the East African Rift System (EARS)," which stretches "downward for thousands of kilometers through several countries in Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya, the ...

In 1950, Hess was made head of the geology department at Princeton. He was called on for advice during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and from 1962 until his death he chaired the Space Science Board, a ...

PROF. GREGORY is to be congratulated on having found, or made, opportunity to complete his work in East Africa, begun so brilliantly and adventurously in 1892–3. Returning to the country for a ...