"Plate tectonics unified all these descriptions and ... This motion creates giant troughs on land, such as the East Africa Rift. In the ocean, this same process creates mid-ocean ridges.

The microplate, or rift branch, known as the Victoria plate, is one of several sections of the East African Rift System—a newly developing tectonic boundary, where the African plate is in the ...

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

"The East African Rift formed already 30 million ... 1 million years or 5 million years from now," Cynthia Ebinger, a plate tectonics professor at Tulane University, Louisiana, told Newsweek.

Finally, the work demonstrates that the system has absorbed almost all of the deformation from plate collision ... of the tectonic boundary where the European and African plates collide.

The crack is found on the African, Arabian and Somali tectonic plate boundaries. For the past 30 million years, the Arabian plate has been slowly moving away from the African continent.

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This process is occurring along the East African Rift System (EARS), a tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is being pulled apart. The East African Rift is causing the continent to ...

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more than 3 billion years ago. The rocks preserve ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there ...