Africa's Afar Depression serves as an unparalleled natural laboratory for studying continental rifting. This inhospitable region, where temperatures can soar to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, features a ...

Africa could one day be 'split into two' after a huge crack that continues to grow appeared in the continent. Go back 200 ...

The microcontinent is 19–24 km thick thinned continental crust and is surrounded ... They studied the age of faults linked to the rifting, the mid-ocean ridge and associated transform faults ...