As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to create new ocean floor, sedimentary rocks will also be deposited within the rift valley. At first the rift ...
The area falls within a geologically active region of the Great Rift Valley that has experienced a number of earthquakes and volcanic events in the last 800 years. Two major volcanic eruptions ...
Harry Hess became a professor of geology at Princeton in 1932 ... With the discovery in 1953 of the Great Global Rift, a volcanic valley running along the midocean ridges, Hess looked back ...
The area falls within a geologically active region of the Great Rift Valley that has experienced a number of earthquakes and volcanic events in the last 800 years. Two major volcanic eruptions ...
Harry Hess became a professor of geology at Princeton in 1932 ... With the discovery in 1953 of the Great Global Rift, a volcanic valley running along the midocean ridges, Hess looked back ...