The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken heart," it is filled with solidified magma and lava.

An aerial image shows a part of Turkana South Island in Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, in northern Kenya.AFP— ...

A large crack, stretching several kilometers, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was ...

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Figure 2: Palinspastic reconstruction with arbitrary reference datum 10 of profile Lusigal 12 (ref.16) across the southern Iberia abyssal plain (SIAP). In the Alps, oceanic crust is represented by ...