Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

Africa is gradually splitting in two. As with most geological processes, it unfolds at a glacial pace over millions of years, ...

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...

The Earth's tectonic plates have always slowly shifted over billions of years of our planet's history, carving out seas and pressing mountain ranges into existence. One change that is expected in the ...

What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? We investigate the longstanding question of how strain is accommodated and transferred along rifts over time by ...