Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island, is a living testament to the power of geological forces. Its dramatic ...

Interest in human evolution has stimulated new geological work in the southern rift valley of Kenya. A new article presents the results of more than 15 years of field research on complex strata ...

The presence of excellent oil-prone source rocks in the Nenana basin allows a more optimistic evaluation of other interior Alaska rift basins. Deep nonmarine rift basins, such as the oil-rich Bohai ...

Madagascar’s land reshaped twice. Two giant rifts flipped slopes, reversed rivers, and formed isolated landscapes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract New high‐resolution seismic reflection data from northern Lake Baikal and detailed land‐based morphological and sedimentological data ...

Boulder, CO, USA - Extending from Colorado, USA, to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, the Rio Grande rift divides the Colorado Plateau on the west from the interior of the North American craton on the ...