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

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.

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 crack, stretching for miles, is slowly tearing through the desert landscape, ...

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

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 ...

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 rift is responsible for creating some of Africa's most iconic landmarks, including the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. It started forming roughly 25 million years ago, but its ...

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 ...

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 ...