Africa could be torn apart ... the continents were divided when a rift formed in what was once Pangea, widening a gap between it and creating the East and West hemispheres. Prof Macdonald added ...

The East African Rift’s development mirrors the creation of the Atlantic Ocean millions of years ago, making it the only place on Earth where continental crust is transitioning into oceanic ...

The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a massive fault line expanding over millions of years. For 30 million years, the Arabian Plate has been ...

The East African Rift mimics the Atlantic’s ancient formation. It’s the only site where continental crust transitions to oceanic crust in real time, offering a live geological spectacle.

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...