The Virunga chain is part of the East African Rift Valley system, which marks the boundary between two plates: the Nubian plate to the west and the Somalian plate to the east. The rift valley is a ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

As the two sides of the mountain ... the East Pacific rise, which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America, the rate is 12.6 inches (32.2 cm) per year. The Continental Slide ...

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. In ...

The valley stretches over 1,800 miles from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the smaller Somali plate and much larger ...

The idea of Pangea was introduced by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912 as part of his theory of continental ... into two or more smaller plates along divergent ... as a rift valley.

A massive rift in Ethiopia separated continental plates by 400 feet and is part of a rift network that may flood enough to create a new ocean in 2 million years.

Continental rift valleys are huge fractures on the surface of the Earth that break continental plates with the eventual development of new oceans. Although instrumental in driving climate and ...

The rift was identified as the edge of three tectonic plates that have already been drifting apart for some time: the African Nubian, African Somali, and Arabian. What the science says ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

Kenya's Rift Valley split. 29 ... Plate tectonics is a good ... every now and again something dramatic happens and leads to renewed questions about the African continent splitting in two.