Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...
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Continental rift could explain why so many early human fossils are found in East Africa
The crust beneath part of Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than geologists thought, new measurements have found. That has ...
Deep beneath Africa, a massive flow of hot mantle rock appears to be quietly reshaping the continent in ways scientists did not fully expect.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. - Courtesy Prof. Thomas Gernon/University of Southampton ...
Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...
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When continents try, and fail, to break apart
Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and runs smack in the middle of the United States at the Great Lakes. The rift ...
Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...
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