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 ...

According to the study, due to the movements along the East African Rift System, this process is dividing Africa into two parts. According to researchers, over millions of years, the formation of ...

and the discovery of a deep-Earth water reservoir questions traditional theories about where, and how much, of the planet’s water resides. In the case of the East African Rift, scientists will have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tectonic clash is causing a rift which is reshaping the African continent The Afar Triangle ... The Afar Triangle, a region with a deep fossil record that dates to the early ancestors of modern ...