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3,000-km fault slices Africa—future sea threatens to cut off 4 countries

The East African Rift stretches more than 3,000 kilometers, slicing from Ethiopia’s Red Sea coast through Kenya and down to ...
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Sedimentation in the African rifts edited by L.E. Frostick [and others]

African rift tectonics and sedimentation : an introduction / H.G. Reading -- Geomorphology of the African Rift System / A.T. Grove -- Geophysical controls on sedimentation within the African rift ...
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Scientists found a crack so massive it will form a new ocean

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly ...
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Africa is being torn apart by a 'superplume' of hot rock from deep within Earth, study suggests

The East African Rift System drives volcanic activity in places like the Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia (pictured here). (Image credit: Mike Korostelev via Getty Images) Researchers have found new ...