Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath the East African Rift System.

He reviews here geological aspects of the East African rift structure which have a bearing on problems of the upper mantle and continental drift.

The East African Rift System (EARS) is the world’s largest continental rift, stretching from Jordan to Mozambique. For years, geologists have been puzzled as to why EARS displays some ...

as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations as well ...

The process stems from the East African Rift System (EARS), which is a 2,000-mile-long rift that began forming at least 22 million years ago and runs through the region where Africa’s Great ...

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

Figure 1: (a) Structural map of the East African Rift Systems shown on an elevation map. The black lines highlight the major rift bounding faults along each rift system. (b) Geologic and structural ...