On Earth, continental rifts can develop into new plate boundaries where oceanic lithosphere starts to form. This paper examines a seismically and volcanically active rift system, the East African Rift ...

In any case, earthquakes occur at deep crustal levels, where the crust is supposed to be ductile, in a way very similar to what is found in the East African Rift System. From these results we conclude ...

Continental rifting requires the existence of extensional forces great enough to break the lithosphere. The East African Rift is described as an active type of rift, in which the source of these ...

Figure 1: Artist’s cross section illustrating the main types of plate boundaries (see text); the East African Rift Zone is a good example of ... The upper boundary layer of the mantle, the lithosphere ...