This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of ...

The movement of tectonic plates may take millions of years, but in Northern Ethiopia, you can see it happen in real time. In ...

Mountains aren't the static, unchanging giants they appear to be during a human lifetime. These massive formations are constantly shifting, growing, or shrinking at rates that vary dramatically across ...

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...