The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

The western rift includes the Virunga and Rwenzori mountain ranges and several of Africa's Great Lakes, where the deep rift has filled with water. Called the Albertine Rift (after Lake Albert ...

The expedition also found that a continuous mountain-like ridge runs through the Atlantic to the southwest of Africa ... a deep canyon. In some places the canyon, called the Great Global Rift ...

The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia, up to 10 meters deep—marking the early stages of an ocean basin. The East African Rift mimics the ...

Rift in Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica, photographed from the air during a NASA Operation IceBridge survey flight on Nov. 4, 2016. This rift is the second to form in the center of ...

At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart.

Africa is slowly tearing itself ... the vast timescales of geological change. Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018) A massive crack, 50 feet deep and 65 feet wide, appeared in Kenya’s Rift ...

Series exploring east Africa's Great Rift Valley. On the vast savannahs, grazers and predators struggle to outwit each other, forcing primates to develop social systems. Show more Visible from ...