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

Over the course of a couple days in September 2005—amidst a flurry of volcanic eruptions ... the Earth to debut its newest ocean. What is the East African Rift System? One of the greatest ...

‘There’s slippage and faults creating earthquake activity, along with visible signs of active volcanoes ... the rift, the ...

Scientists rushed to the rift, hoping to study a process that typically occurs underwater, at the mid-ocean ridge, where volcanic material forms new ... years for the [crust] thickness around the rift ...

Two major volcanic eruptions occurred in ... continental split—and ultimately create a new ocean—along the great East African ...

"The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of East Africa will become its own separate small ...

Stock image of the Rift Valley ... volcano erupt again? Himalayan plateau is about to fall apart due to thawing permafrost "If the western branch of the East African Rift will become the new ocean ...

Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam. The process renews the ocean floor and widens the ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged ...

"The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of East Africa will become its own separate small ...

Iceland is a "hot spot" for volcanic ... rift zones spread to the north, south and west -- all part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mountain range that mostly runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.