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Stories about: East African Rift

Second Oldest Lake Now Warmest in 1,500 Years In a paper published yesterday, May 16, scientists report record-high temperatures inside the world's second-deepest and second-oldest static body of water, Lake Tanganyika. Located in the eastern part of Africa, in the Great Rift Valley, the lake apparently experiences unprecedented warming, which places its cu... 17 May 2010 05:18 GMT Tanzanian Volcano Shows Weirdest Lava The East African Rift, located in the southeastern part of the continent, is one of the most active tectonic regions on Earth, not necessarily in terms of earthquakes, but of the amount of movement that is recorded underneath the Earth's crust. In a few million years, the entire rift will be flooded, and a new s... 7 May 2009 06:31 GMT