Deep beneath the Central African Plateau, something vast is stirring. In Zambia's remote Kafue Rift, hot springs are ...

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If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a Frontiers in Earth Science study published yesterday, an ...

Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the ...

The findings did not come from earthquakes or volcanic activity, but from the analysis of gases emerging from hot springs in ...

Most of us learned the same list in school: seven continents, give or take a geography teacher’s preference for merging ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

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Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...