The land in East Africa is slowly tearing itself apart, a continental fracture that will eventually open a new ocean basin.

What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? We investigate the longstanding question of how strain is accommodated and transferred along rifts over time by ...

In this article we present a new perspective on the geology and petroleum prospectivity of the Mozambique basin. It is a synthesis of an open report 1 recently prepared by ENH-ECL which includes a ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Ohio -- The Great Rift Valley of East Africa—the birthplace of the human species—may have taken much longer to develop than previously believed, according to a new study published this week in ...

A study of the structure and evolution of the Gulf of Corinth rift in central Greece will increase scientific understanding of rifted margin development and the tectonic mechanisms underlying seafloor ...