A new study of hot springs in Zambia’s Kafue Rift has found helium and carbon isotope signatures in the region. These ...

Scientists observe Africa's split along the East African Rift, which could form a new ocean over millions of years and reveal ...

Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) management is now developing tourist lodges and other visitor service facilities in the Geopark to attract more tourists, both foreign and local visitor ...

Research at the University of Minnesota Duluth may indicate the future climate of equatorial Africa. "Based on our studies, we would say that this part of Africa is due for a major drought sometime ...

Scientists have discovered a dramatic geological process beneath eastern Africa that could reshape the continent over millions of years. New research published in Nature Geoscience reveals that pulses ...

The formation and evolution of Africa from the Archaean to present : introduction / D.J.J. van Hinsbergen, S.J.H. Buiter, T.H. Torsvik, C. Gaina & S.J. Webb -- New ...

Namibe Basin, Angola, where the international team of researchers found rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles. The different letters correspond to different times during the splitting of ...

Africa's cotton industry is in focus at the WTO ministerial conference - Copyright AFP OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT Africa's cotton industry is in focus at the WTO ministerial ...

SOUTH Africa is characterised geologically by its unity in plan and its variety in structure and composition. It is of special interest to European geologists, as its Karroo formation is an important ...

A giant plume of super-heated rock rising up from near Earth's core could help explain mysterious distortions linked with a giant tear in the planet's surface that appears to be splitting Africa in ...

New seismic data reveal that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift has thinned to about 13 kilometers, marking a ...