Africa rests on three tectonic plates that are all moving away from each other and this has already caused some changes that ...

Rifting in East Africa and large-scale tectonic processes / E.R. Oxburgh -- Structural development of the East African Rift System / R.M. Shackleton -- Structural volcanic evolution of the Gregory ...

This place has yielded many early human fossils.We have provided high-precision age estimates, taking a small step closer to establishing a more refined timeframe of human evolution.Millions of years ...

Of all the battlegrounds in Washington’s technology war with Beijing, the Great Rift Valley may be the most beautiful.

Pinning down early human evolution is challenging. However, ancient eruptions in East Africa might provide some answers.

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Last May, a US magazine reported on a geological change taking place in Africa that could be very slowly splitting the ...

The valley is the product of deep-seated geological forces which have spewed out a line of cloud-wreathed volcanoes stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. Their peaks provide a refuge for East Africa's ...

The African Great Rift Valley is a geological marvel that offers some of the most stunning hiking trails in the world ...