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Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. ... Great rift in the region of the greats lakes, Africa Le rift dans la région des grands lacs...
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Great Rift Valley, geological fault system of SW Asia and E Africa. It extends c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) from N Syria to central Mozambique. The northernmost extension runs S through Syria and Lebanon, the Jordan valley, the Dead Sea, and the Gulf of Aqaba.
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What Is the Rift Valley? Africa's Great Rift Valley is a 6,000-mile crack (fissure) in the earth's crust, stretching from Lebanon to Mozambique. One of its most dramatic sections slices through East Africa, dividing Kenya into two segments.
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We are now on the western branch of the Great Rift Valley, formed by movements of tectonic plates--huge chunks of the earths crust which "float" on an underlayer of molten rock. ... The red line on this map shows the eastern and western faults of the Great Rift Valley, which travels 4,500 miles from southern Africa,
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A description of the East Africa Rift System with maps and cross sections. ... Alex Guth is currently a PhD candidate at Michigan Tech and is looking at the effects of climate on desert varnish on the exposed flows and alluvium in the East African Rift Valley. She assists Dr. Wood with the geology field camp.
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Geographical discovery & exploration; Indigenous peoples; Photographs: collections; Plant life: general; Wild animals; Great Rift Valley - Description and travel.; East Africa; Photography / Subjects & Themes / General; Africa; Africa - Central; Africa - General; Description; Description and travel; Great Rift Valley;
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A selection of articles related to Great Rift Valley ... A Wisdom Archive on Great Rift Valley ... Great Rift Valley: Encyclopedia - African Great Lakes...
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The Great Rift Valley will Lead to the Somali Plate ... A real-life triple rift is shown on the left between Africa and Saudi Arabia. The two arms of the Y are the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The stem of the Y is the Great Rift Valley, which is tearing Africa apart.
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