The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

"We now know the mineral and rock chemistry and understand the textures, but the next step was to talk about how we think the rocks formed, in terms of magmas rising through and crystallizing in the ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

This course deals with the composition and evolution of the crust, lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere ... in our understanding of the evolution and present state of the continental as well as ...

The Earth has a hard, thin crust and molten mantle. However, experts now say the latter is less homogenous than we once thought and new tech is finally letting us figure out just what’s under there.

Research from Macquarie University shows that critical metals accumulate around the edges of ancient continental cores due to silica ... the link to critical metals lies in this change in melt ...

This alteration is different from simple alteration as the sole control of chemical composition, but is associated with metasomatism. The metapelites sandstone shows a mixture of mafic and ...