The Great Rift Valley extends nearly 5000 kilometers from Syria in Middle East Asia all the way down the Mozambique in Southern Africa. This rift is slowly but surely splitting Africa into two and is the meeting point of two tectonic plates which have been grinding together for millions of ye...
The Karoo Supergroup has evolved from two distinct tectonic regimes sourced from the southern and the northern margin of Gondwana [37]. The southern tectonic regimes are believed to be related to processes of subduction and orogenesis along the Panthalassan (paleo- Pacific) margin of Gondwana, ...
The East African Rift Valley stretches more than 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates. Activity along the eastern branch of the rift valley, running along Ethiopia, Kenya an...
Seismological findings show a complex scenario of plume upwellings from a deep thermo-chemical anomaly (superplume) beneath the East African Rift System (EARS). It is unclear if these geophysical observations represent a true picture of the superplume an
A research team led by SMU discovered ancient rocks and fossils in Angola that provide the most complete geological record of the splitting of South America and Africa and the formation of the South Atlantic Ocean. These findings, dating back 130 to 71 million years, offer a uniqu...