A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath the East African Rift System.

These same signatures were also found in volcanic rocks as far apart as the Red Sea and Malawi. That pattern suggests a single, giant source beneath all these regions: the African superplume.

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for around two decades when a 35-mile-long fissure was spotted in Ethiopia's desert ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

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