Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from ...

Wherever two of the plates of Earth's crust move apart from one another — such as at a divergent plate boundary — a rift valley can begin to form. Over time, the forces of erosion will ...

The East African Rift valley is an active divergent rift valley, one of the few areas on Earth where a continent is being actively separated or rifted by the ongoing forces of plate tectonics.

The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...

The East African Rift (EAR) or East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. It began developing around the onset of the Miocene, 22-25 million years ago.

At divergent boundaries in the oceans ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

Hoping to prevent another epidemic, scientists are working on Rift Valley fever. The Zika virus epidemic of 2015 resulted in thousands of Brazilian babies being born with severe brain defects ...

This area is part of the Great Rift Valley, where Africa is slowly pushed and pulled apart by uprising material in earth's mantle. Eventually, the rift will become deep enough to host a new ocean ...

The Zika virus must take the “side roads” into the placenta to infect a fetus, one researcher said — but the Rift Valley fever virus takes the “expressway.” By Emily Baumgaertner The ...

Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from ...