Superplume mantle tracked isotopically the length of Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea by John M. O’Connor, Wilfried Jokat, Marcel Regelous, Klaudia F. Kuiper, Daniel P. Miggins, Anthony A. P. Koppers

“…Low seismic velocity anomalies reveal a complex scenario of plume upwellings from a deep thermo-chemical anomaly (superplume) in the mantle below the East African Rift, however, geophysical observations alone are insufficient to identify the extent of plume influence on the magmatism along the rift. …”
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African low‐level jets and their importance for water vapor transport and rainfall by Munday, C, Washington, R, Hart, N

“…Here, we show that a series of nocturnal easterly Low-Level Jets (LLJs), which form in the valleys punctuating the East African rift system, transport the majority of water vapor to central Africa from the Indian Ocean. …”

A systems-based approach to parameterise seismic hazard in regions with little historical or instrumental seismicity: active fault and seismogenic source databases for southern Mal... by J. N. Williams, H. Mdala, Å. Fagereng, L. N. J. Wedmore, J. Biggs, Z. Dulanya, P. Chindandali, F. Mphepo

“…We apply this approach to southern Malawi, near the southern end of the East African Rift, and where, although no on-fault slip rate measurements exist, there are constraints on strain partitioning between border and intra-basin faults. …”
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The historical phytogeography of the Disinae (Orchidaceae) by H. P. Linder

“…These areas appear on recent palaeoenvironmental data to be possible refugia (Cape fold mountains, the South African Drakensberg and the East African Rift Valley mountains), from where the taxa spread when the climate ameliorated after the last glacial. …”
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Blind magmatism abets nonvolcanic continental rifting by Rasheed Ajala, Folarin Kolawole, William Menke

“…We focus on one such rift, the Tanganyika-Rukwa segment of the East African Rift System, where we analyze local seismicity for shear wave anisotropy and couple the results with numerical modeling. …”
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Valley formation aridifies East Africa and elevates Congo Basin rainfall by Munday, C, Savage, N, Jones, RG, Washington, R

“…Here, numerical model experiments show that valleys punctuating the 6,000-km-long East African Rift System (EARS) are central to the development of dry conditions in East Africa. …”

Estimation of groundwater contribution to Lake Basaka in different hydrologic years using conceptual netgroundwater flux model by Megersa Olumana Dinka

“…The MERV is situated within the Great East African Rift Valley (GEARV) region, which is hydrgeologically unstable and complex. …”
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AT THE START OF ANTHROPOGENESIS: HARD ENVIRONMENTS OR APPETENT ACTIVITY? by A. A. Romanchuk

“…Thus, nowadays we know that the East African rift in reality was not an impenetrable area for early hominids. …”
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An Autonomous Thermal Camera System for Monitoring Fumarole Activity by Harald van der Werff, Eunice Bonyo, Christoph Hecker

“…The Kenyan part of the East African Rift System hosts several geothermal fields for energy production. …”
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Structure of the mantle and tectonic zoning of the central Alpine-Himalayan belt by V. G. Trifonov, S. Yu. Sokolov

“…The sections go across of the central part of the belt from Adriatic to Western Tien Shan, Pamirs, Western Himalayas, and the adjacent territories of the East African rift system, the Arabian, Turanian and Scythian plates, and the East European platform. …”
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Recurrent explosive eruptions from a high-risk Main Ethiopian Rift volcano throughout the Holocene by Martin-Jones, C, Lane, C, Pearce, N, Smith, V, Lamb, H, Schaebitz, F, Viehberg, F, Brown, M, Frank, U, Asrat, A

“…A lake sediment tephrostratigraphic approach shows significant potential for application throughout the East African Rift system, and will be essential to better understanding volcanic hazards in this rapidly developing region.…”

ICDP workshop on the Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin project: exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution over the past 4 Myr by C. C. Beck, M. Berke, C. S. Feibel, C. S. Feibel, V. Foerster, L. Olaka, L. Olaka, H. M. Roberts, C. A. Scholz, K. Cantner, A. Noren, G. M. Kiptoo, J. Muirhead

“…In the dynamic tectonic, environmental, climatic, and ecological setting that is eastern Africa, records recovered through scientific drilling enable us to look at change through time in unprecedented ways. Cores from the East African Rift System can provide valuable information about the context in which hominins have evolved in one of the key regions of hominin evolution over the past 4 Myr. …”
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Early human speciation, brain expansion and dispersal influenced by African climate pulses. by Susanne Shultz, Mark Maslin

“…We propose that the collated record of ephemeral East African Rift System (EARS) lakes could be a proxy for the regional paleoclimate conditions experienced by early hominins. …”
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A spring forward for hominin evolution in East Africa. by Mark O Cuthbert, Gail M Ashley

“…There is also growing geological evidence of springs associated with stone tools and hominin fossils in the East African Rift System (EARS) during a critical period for hominin evolution (from 1.8 Ma). …”
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Aborted propagation of the Ethiopian rift caused by linkage with the Kenyan rift by Giacomo Corti, Raffaello Cioni, Zara Franceschini, Federico Sani, Stéphane Scaillet, Paola Molin, Ilaria Isola, Francesco Mazzarini, Sascha Brune, Derek Keir, Asfaw Erbello, Ameha Muluneh, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Anne Glerum

“…Here, the authors document progressive focusing of tectonic and magmatic activity caused by interactions between the Kenyan and Ethiopian rift segments of the East African Rift.…”
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Spectral indices derived, non-parametric Decision Tree Classification approach to lithological mapping in the Lake Magadi area, Kenya by Gayantha R. L. Kodikara, Tsehaie Woldai

“…The area of investigation is the Lake Magadi in the East African Rift Valley in Kenya. The work involves the collection of rock and soil samples in the field, their analyses using reflectance and emittance spectroscopy, and the processing and interpretation of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer data through the DTC method. …”
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Recurrent explosive eruptions from a high risk Main Ethiopian Rift volcano throughout the Holocene by Martin-Jones, C, Lane, C, Pearce, N, Smith, V, Lamb, H, Schaebitz, F, Viehberg, F, Brown, M, Frank, U, Asrat, A

“…A lake sediment tephrostratigraphic approach shows significant potential for application throughout the East African Rift system, and will be essential to better understanding volcanic hazards in this rapidly developing region.…”

Th.G. Sahama's (1910-1983) volcanological and mineralogical studies in Africa: Part i. Expeditions to the Virunga Volcanic Field and petrological-mineralogical studies on the Nyira... by I. Haapala

“…Nyiragongo in the Virunga Volcanic Field (western branch of the East African Rift), as well as the granitic pegmatites and hydrothermal mineral deposits of eastern and southern Africa, were the main research topics of Professor Th.G. …”
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Insights Into Fault‐Magma Interactions in an Early‐Stage Continental Rift From Source Mechanisms and Correlated Volcano‐Tectonic Earthquakes by S. J. Oliva, C. J. Ebinger, C. Wauthier, J. D. Muirhead, S. W. Roecker, E. Rivalta, S. Heimann

“…We use a new earthquake data set from a dense temporary seismic array (2013–2014) in the ~7‐Myr‐old Magadi‐Natron‐Manyara section of the East African Rift, which includes the carbonatitic Oldoinyo Lengai volcano that erupted explosively in 2007–2008. …”
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The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor by Warren D Miller, John M Anderson, Moctar Doucouré

“…By focusing on the Western Rift Valley Corridor (WRVC) within East Africa and its connection to the broader East African Rift System (EARS), we aim to shed light on the significance of geodiversity and its integration with ecological systems in the context of Earth Stewardship. …”
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