As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...

Remarkably, it could one day lead to the formation of Earth's sixth ocean ... flooding the Afar region and the East African ...

The British Council and its commissioned curators, which includes Farrell Centre Director Owen Hopkins, have announced ...

A geologically dynamic region in the Great Rift Valley is closely watched by scientists as a fascinating natural laboratory.

Harry Hess became a professor of geology at Princeton in 1932 ... With the discovery in 1953 of the Great Global Rift, a volcanic valley running along the midocean ridges, Hess looked back ...

The formation of a sixth ocean could bring significant ... while the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea could flood the East African Rift Valley, forming a new ocean. However, complete continental ...