A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how and where continents break apart.

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...