Zambia's hot springs offer a clue to tectonic activity in southern Africa. By analyzing gases bubbling to the surface, ...

Helium-rich gases rising through hot springs could mark the early stages of continental breakup in southern Africa.

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

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Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is the world’s largest continental rift, stretching from Jordan to Mozambique. For years, geologists have been puzzled as to why EARS displays some deformations ...

It could have literally earth-shaking implications for the (very) long-term future of the continent.

Tulane University researchers, collaborating with an international team of scientists, have discovered why some parts of Earth's crust remain strong while others give way, overturning long-held ...

Scientists found mantle-linked helium signatures in Zambia's Kafue Rift hot springs. The findings suggest the Southwest ...

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. In ...