The disease is known for its strong association with climatic variables, especially excessive rainfall, high humidity, and ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists ...

One of the world's largest rift valleys is the EAR, approximately 3,700 miles long and 30-40 miles wide. The rift valley is so big that it is slowly splitting Africa in two.

The formation and evolution of the African Rift Valley are shaded in mystery, but geoscientists at Penn State are mapping the history of the Rift through space and time by analyzing the chemistry ...

Great Rift Valley, Tanzania. Shutterstock This process is accompanied by surface manifestations along the rift valley in the form of volcanism and seismic activity. Rifts are the initial stage of a ...

Books Received Published: 23 February 1922 The Rift Valleys and Geology of East Africa G. W. L. Nature 109, 233–234 (1922) Cite this article ...

And if you need any proof, look no further than Kenya’s Rift Valley, where a giant, gaping tear opened up following heavy rains and seismic activity, according to Face2Face Africa.

During an expedition to British East Africa in 1892–93 Prof. Gregory confirmed Suess's conclusions, with some modifications as to the age and origin of the Great Rift Valley, the formation of ...

The split in Ethiopia, known as the East African Rift Valley, occurred in 2005, but the full development into a new ocean may not be complete for another 5 to 10 million years.