When being taught geology, many will have been told of Alfred Wegener ... However, Bruce thought this would support the radical theory of continental drift, largely disregarded by the scientists of ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split – and ultimately create a new ocean – along the great East African Rift Valley.

The real answer came much later when we finally learned about plate tectonics in the 1960s, a development from the continental drift theory first proposed in the 1920s. At the summit of Mount ...