Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

Madagascar's landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island's dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its ...

The mystery of how continents break up could be solved with clues from the rifting earth of Ethiopia, researchers find. Since the 1960s, scientists have known that over the course of millions of years ...

Discover how volcanic activity in Africa is reshaping the continent, causing tectonic shifts and new ocean formation. Explore the Ethiopian East African Rift. Lava flows from the 2005 Mando Hararo ...

Using an automated method to create a high-resolution map of the seismic velocity below the seafloor, researchers found a large-scale gas reservoir in an area where the Earth's upper layers are being ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling magma. Eventually, a new ocean basin forms. In this web focus we present opinion pieces, along with research and overview articles that ...

Rifting is a sore spot for many Aion players. On the one hand, some folks no doubt felt that the mechanic was intrusive and forced PvP on people who simply wanted to quest, gather, and otherwise PvE.